by Hunter Styles | Jan 27, 2015 | Arts, News
Four days ago, Tomás Astacio slept outside for the first time. He found a locked, empty building on Winter Street in Springfield and climbed up to the second floor, where he spent the night on a balcony. The temperature dropped below freezing that night — 22 degrees...
by Amanda Drane | Jan 28, 2015 | Articles, Featured, News
The first snowflakes begin to fall Monday night. It’s my cue to head into the gusty blizzard, geared with elbow-high gloves and the coziest scarf I could find, in search of the city’s homeless. How are they faring, outside in this storm? I walk several frosty laps...
by James Heflin | Jan 28, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Stage
Photos by Jerrey Robers and James Heflin For a lot of people, it’s the stuff of anxiety dreams: a mic awaits on a stage. An expectant crowd is staring at you. You don’t have a script, even if you’ve done some homework — you just have to talk. That scenario is, says...
by Kristin Palpini | Jan 28, 2015 | News
With Kinder Morgan already into the federal pre-filing process to construct a 70-mile addition to the Tennessee Gas Pipeline, protest against the project has intensified. The Tennessee Gas Pipeline is a 13,900-mile line that runs natural gas from Louisiana, Texas and...
by Hunter Styles | Jan 28, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Between the Lines, Featured, Film, News, Stage
The show must go on, as they say — until it’s gone on long enough. On Jan. 14, the student-run Project Theatre group at Mount Holyoke College canceled its annual production of Eve Ensler’s play The Vagina Monologues, opting instead to write and produce a new show of...