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By STEVE PFARRER

Dear Oliver: An Unexpected Friendship with Oliver SacksBy Susan R. BarryThe Experiment, LLCSusan Barry, a former Mount Holyoke College professor of neuroscience, behavior, and biology, was born with a significant case of strabismus — crossed eyes —...

By MICKEY RATHBUN

The word “herbarium” sounds a bit quaint, even antiquated. We may think of Emily Dickinson’s herbarium, which she created during her year at Mount Holyoke in 1847-48. Although she had begun studying plants at age 9 and was helping her mother in the...

By EMILEE KLEIN

EASTHAMPTON — Unlike most bar logs, the pages of the small black book found on the homemade bartop at Valley Art Supplies are filled with doodles and scribbles: a cat Statue of Liberty, a skull cocktail glass and platypus gyroscope lily...

By STEVE PFARRER

Mardi Gras took place last month, but you can catch some of its flavor at the Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity on March 24 at 4 p.m. when Jon Cleary & The Monster Gentlemen come to the Florence venue — with the Soggy Po Boys opening the show.Cleary has...

By STEVE PFARRER

Like father, like son: Tim Buckley and his son, Jeff, both became musicians at a young age, and both died well before their time — Tim of a heroin overdose at age 28 in 1975, and Jeff from drowning at age 30 in 1997.Tim Buckley became a pretty...

By STEVE PFARRER

Steven LeBlanc made his first foray into mixing drinks and bartending when he was in the Navy, researching a lot on his own, creating classic cocktails and his variations on them and testing them on friends and shipmates, then serving drinks in an...

By STEVE PFARRER

Still hunting for holiday gifts? Want to check out some new art? You can do both by visiting area galleries this month, which offer a variety of exhibits. Here’s a look at some of the shows.Michelson Galleries, Northampton — The Eric Carle Museum...

By MADDIE FABIAN

NORTHAMPTON — After nearly a year without a contract and two years with no raise, about 600 Cooley Dickinson Hospital workers will receive an average wage increase of 21% over 20 months, among other gains in a new contract ratified unanimously this...

Back Porch Festival is coming backNORTHAMPTON — Signature Sounds’ Back Porch Festival, which underwent a dramatic expansion earlier this year, is set to return next March in a similar format, with 50 performers playing in 10 different venues over...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — As the Nashawannuck Pond Steering Committee faces a number of ongoing and upcoming projects to maintain and preserve the pond, a nonprofit organization has formed to financially support the committee.As a nonprofit, The Friends of...

By STEVE PFARRER

It’s a modest space, a basement area that’s right next door to one of Northampton’s busiest art centers, the A.P.E. Gallery, and just another door down from an even larger arts space, R. Michelson Galleries.But Rhynia, a new arts and event space in...

By HANNAH BEVIS

Just two days after her teammate Izzy Palmisano became the first player in Hopkins Academy softball history to record 100 career hits, Taylor Barry became the second. The senior drilled a single between third and shortstop for her 100th hit on...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — The cleanliness and health of Nashawannuck Pond will be on the minds of two groups of volunteers on Saturday.While members of Easthampton High School’s National Honor Society will be picking up trash littered along the edges and in the...

By EMILY THURLOW

WESTFIELD — While many students and staff from school districts throughout the region spent their spring vacation sleeping in, catching up with hobbies or simply treating themselves to some relaxation, a group of teachers and administrators from...

By EMILY THURLOW

GRANBY — The mystery that surrounded the case of the murder victim who came to be known as “Granby Girl” was one that struck a lot of people, including the town’s retired police chief, Lou Barry.Though he took the helm at the Police Department in 1987...

By STEVE PFARRER

Chester Theatre Company, which like many arts organizations struggled through the pandemic, came back last summer to offer its first season at Chester Town Hall since 2020.Now the company is preparing for its 2023 season, and they’ll do it under the...

By STEVE PFARRER

Alicia Spence says she grew up in a family “that wasn’t especially handy.”If that’s the case, she’s more than made up for it.Spence, who lives in Florence, is an experienced timber framer who’s been leading the effort in the past few years, and...

‘Barbecue” means many different things to many different people. So does “BBQ.” So let’s get the first big question out of the way first: Is it barbecue or BBQ? Google Trends, the super-brain, says it’s BBQ. U.S. searches for both terms peak each year...

By MELISSA KAREN SANCES

It’s the coldest night of the season, so cold that the wind stings, so cold that our photographer’s lenses need time to thaw, so cold that from the bar of the Marigold, you can’t see the street because the doors are coated in ice.But inside. Inside is...

By STEVE PFARRER

Barry Moser needs little introduction in these parts, or across much of the U.S., for that matter. The Hatfield artist has won enormous praise and recognition over the years for his detailed wood engravings and his limited edition prints of classic...

By BILL DANIELSON

In keeping with my New Years resolution to focus some more attention on the plants that live around us I decided to look for a list that I was convinced must exist somewhere. You see, I am a compulsive list-maker. The blood of a scientist runs through...