Thursday, February 9, 2012
Playing this week in area theaters: Cinemark in Hadley opens "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island," "Pina," "Safe House," "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace," "This Means War" and "The Vow." The Amherst Cinema continues showing "The Artist," "A Dangerous Method" and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy." South Ha
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Because The Documentary Channel has been repeatedly airing Chris Sautter's multi-awarding-winning film, "So Glad I Made It: The Saga of Roger Salloom, America's Best Unknown Songwriter," the Northampton singer-songwriter reports that he is "getting new fans every day from all over the U.S." and may well be on his way to becoming America's Best-Known Unknown Songwriter (next
Thursday, February 9, 2012
If you're prepared to sit in a Cinemark seat at the Hampshire Mall for nearly six hours (with two intermissions) Saturday's live HD broadcast of a performance at the Metropolitan Opera of "Götterdämmerung" ("Twilight of the Gods"), the final installment in Wagner's colossal "Ring" saga, promises visual spectacle equal to the aural in the form of the produ
Thursday, February 2, 2012
According to Jan Whitaker, author of "Tea at the Blue Lantern Inn: A Social History of the Tea Room" (2002), Northampton was home to no less than 15 tea shops in the early 1920s.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Jazz singer and Springfield native Sarah Elizabeth Charles won a scholarship to Springfield's Community Music School in 2001 when she was just 11 years old. Since then, Charles has performed the national anthem at New England Patriots and Celtic games and sung in clubs in Boston, Philadelphia and Washington; she's also appeared at the Bern Jazz Festival in Switzerland.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Filmed before the era of computer-generated effects on what was, at that time, the biggest movie set ever constructed for what was, at that time, the most expensive motion picture ever made, the chariot race in "Ben Hur" (1959) remains one of cinema's iconic sequences (New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther called it "a stunning complex of mighty setting, thrilling action by
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Playing this week in area theaters: Cinemark in Hadley opens "Chronicle," "Big Miracle" and "The Woman in Black." The Amherst Cinema continues showing "The Artist," "A Dangerous Method" and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy." South Hadley's Tower Theaters features "The Descendants" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close."
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