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By BILL DANIELSON

It was a cold winter’s night and my beautiful wife Susan and I were watching movies. There was a fire crackling in the wood stove, we were enjoying good food and drink and we were both all snoodled up and comfy. It was everything you could have wanted...

By STEVE PFARRER

The 1980s witnessed the start of what have become some longstanding artistic landmarks in Northampton: the Young@Heart Chorus, the downtown New Year’s Eve festival called First Night Northampton, and a good-natured competition involving collegiate a...

By STEVE PFARRER

Like solo piano? Specifically solo piano from classically trained musicians who have infused their music with lots of other elements, from hip hop to jam band grooves to pop?If that’s the case, next Thursday, Nov. 9, you’ll have a tough choice to...

When election results no longer matter in a place, democracy no longer inhabits that place. To preserve, protect and defend democracy in America, I would suggest that every would-be candidate be encouraged to state, before their election, whether they...

By STEVE PFARRER

What do Klezmer music and bluegrass have in common? More than you might think, say Natalya Weinstein and John Cloyd Miller.Weinstein and Miller, a married couple from Asheville, North Carolina, are better known musically as Zoe & Cloyd (based on their...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

NORTHAMPTON – The Northampton boys tennis team had taken both regular season matches against Amherst, 4-1. But with the Western Mass. Class B title on the line, the Battle of the Bridge rematch got a little more heated on Friday afternoon.Northampton...

By STEVE PFARRER

A couple years ago, Loudon Wainwright III passed a milestone: The venerable folksinger, known for his sardonic wit and autobiographical songs, turned 75.The number, on one hand, feels kind of arbitrary, because Wainwright has seemingly been around...

By STEVE PFARRER

Day-night doubleheaders have been the standard for Major League Baseball for some time now: the same two teams facing off in two games played before successive crowds.This weekend the Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity in Florence is offering its own...

Four Sundays (and a few Saturdaysand weekdays)NORTHAMPTON — The Northampton Arts Council’s “Four Sundays” program, which has gone through a bit of an evolution in the last few years, is back again in yet another format.The original program, “Four...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Northampton Animal Control was called out into a house on Elm Street early Wednesday to respond to reports of an owl that had entered the home. The barred owl, named after the distinctive striped pattern on their chest, was flying around...

By CHRIS GOUDREAU

A home being built in Goshen would be the first in the Pioneer Valley to be an intentionally carbon sequestering home constructed using an environmentally sustainable mixture of hemp and limestone called hempcrete.The property, located on Fuller Road,...

By SARAH ROBERTSON

BELCHERTOWN — Six University of Massachusetts students were arraigned Tuesday morning on charges related to a post-Super Bowl riot Sunday night in the Southwest Residential Area of campus. A seventh student was arraigned Monday.“It was a difficult and...

By Nyssa Kruse

NORTHAMPTON — Matt Grimaldi, a graduate of Northampton High School’s class of 2017, read encyclopedias for fun as a child.Years later, as a high school student, he put this eclectic knowledge to use as a member of the school’s Quiz Bowl team, which...