Before her first open mic when she was 18, Pamela Means debuted three original songs to her two best friends. They weren’t allowed to look at her as she fingered the guitar and sang to the floor. “I ...
Bridging the heartfelt and heartbreak with soaring celebration, traditional and contemporary Yiddish music will fill the air ...
Bridging the heartfelt and heartbreak with soaring celebration, traditional and contemporary Yiddish music will fill the air this July as the Yidstock festival returns to the Yiddish Book Center in ...
Shawn Palmer is publisher of the Valley Advocate. Prior to joining Newspapers of New England in 2021, Shawn held leadership positions at The (New London) Day, The (Danbury) News-Times, the (Meriden) ...
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PEXELS/Lisa Fotios No matter how hard I think about it, I can’t dream up a plausible public health or safety rationale for dividing the market between tobacco sellers, alcohol sellers, and weed ...
As a nimble alternative weekly newspaper with an eager and talented staff, we invest time developing stories about people, places and topics that the mainstream media doesn’t have the time or, in some ...
If it was just that hippie rag, as detractors liked to rank it, well we hippie ragamuffins devoured it front to back. It spoke our language, the F-laden part included, and it was as underground as the ...
Tucked in the back of INSA’s Easthampton headquarters on Pleasant Street is a little slice of heaven. Like any restaurant with great food, the kitchen is where the action is at — and at INSA, it’s a ...
When she was 10 years old, a fourth-grade teacher asked Debora Bridges during a classroom lesson “what it felt like to be a slave” as a “little colored girl.” It happened in 1961. In Amherst. Although ...