by James Heflin | May 27, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Music
Early 20th-century Modernist literature, at its worst, is uninviting and impenetrable. Take the work of Ezra Pound — at one extreme is his beautiful and accessible imagist poem “In A Station of the Metro”: The apparition of these faces in the crowd; petals on a wet,...
by Kristin Palpini | May 27, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News
Four-year degree in Marxism When the college administration posts a notice on campus to “report hate crimes” the idea, it would seem, is to take the focus off the college administration as being the culprit in one of the slickest crimes that slowly progressed...
by Chris Rohmann | May 27, 2015 | Stagestruck
In this pause between the winter and summer theater seasons, I’ve had a chance to look into a couple of recent books by theater faculty at local colleges. Both authors are also working artists whose practice informs their teaching, and vice versa. Peter Lobdell, who...
by Gary Carra | May 27, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Music, Nightcrawler
We knew that the powers that be were reverting back to the old name. Then we found out that they were getting a new logo. In fact, until recently, the only thing we didn’t know about Springfield’s Cityblock-turned-Bike Nite-back-to-Cityblock was who would be gracing...
by James Heflin | May 27, 2015 | Between the Lines, News
In a pocket of my work bag, I carry a talisman of sorts. It’s a patch from the First Marine Division, aka “The Old Breed.” A man named Harris Mills gave it to me years ago. He was a family friend, and an imposing, if grandfatherly figure — tall, well-coiffed, and...