Teen taste in footwear focus of downtown mural in Amherst
Friday, May 24, 2013
AMHERST — Kids like their footwear. “You can recognize my Vans shoes from a mile away,” says Tabitha Klamm, 17, of Amherst. And soon her Vans, with brightly colored laces, along with her other favorite pair of what she calls hipster shoes, will be represented on a mural to be unveiled in downtown Amherst next month. The 40-by-5-foot piece is being done by participants in the Youth Action Coalition’s Get Up Get Down program. They will attach it to the red fence located between Rao’s Roastery and Panda East restaurant. Called “Keep Walking Forward,” the artwork will give people lounging on the benches in the …
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
A few days after tornadoes hit Springfield June 1, 2011, painter Gregory Stone drove to the west bank of the Connecticut River to find the place a water spout had been captured on video. Stone saw mangled guardrails. They told him he was standing where spinning winds that seemed to toy with the …
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
A student-led production of “Fahrenheit 451” based on Ray Bradbury’s science fiction novel, opens Thursday at 7 p.m. at Northampton High School’s Black Box Theater. The show is directed by NHS senior Ian McKenna-Donnelly, produced by senior Eliana Zimmerman and features live original music. Sophomores Connor Paradis and Eliza Moss-Horwitz play the leads, …
