Reconstruction by Alaya Dawn Johnson (Small Beer Press)Alaya Dawn Johnson has an eclectic resume that would seem to mirror the way her fiction...
SPRINGFIELD — The Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival, presented by the Springfield Jewish Community Center, marks its 16th year with a virtual...
Art soldiers on despite the pandemic and the onset of winter, so here’s a look at what a number of area galleries are offering this month. Most are...
Last March, a few weeks after the pandemic arrived, Signature Sounds responded to the shutdown of its small but popular performing space, The...
Musicians, actors, dancers and plenty of other professional artists in the Valley have dealt with all manner of hardship for nearly year now, as...
HOLYOKE — Students from Holyoke Community College will perform a virtual staged reading of “Failure is Impossible,” a play celebrating women’s...
For years while operating an architectural woodworking business in the city, Dirk Auferoth would look at the late 1800s former National Thread...
A Wartime Ph.D. by Judith Kelliher (Janice Beetle Books/Off the Common Books)In 1969, Bobby Kelliher was in his early 20s when he shipped out to...