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‘I’ve met friends in my books’: Eric Carle Museum celebrates author, illustrator Grace Lin with retrospective exhibition
06-20-2025 10:33 AM

By CAROLYN BROWN

Florence-based author and illustrator Grace Lin is known for books like “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon” (for which she received a Newbery Honor in 2010), “The Gate, the Girl, and the Dragon,” “The Ugly Vegetables,” and “A Big Mooncake for Little Star” (for which she received a Caldecott Honor in 2019). Now, the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst is celebrating Lin’s work with a career retrospective.

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Comedy, tragedy and pandemic tell relatable tale in Silverthorne Theater Co.’s latest production
06-18-2025 10:24 AM

By CAROLYN BROWN

In Silverthorne Theater Co.’s latest production, Jordan Harrison’s “The Amateurs,” a deft cast weaves its way through a complicated but comedic script with pandemic-era resonance.


‘Meant to only last the summer’: Amherst artist’s wheatpaste murals among those now decorating Montague
06-13-2025 10:12 AM

By CAROLYN BROWN

Earlier this year, three Massachusetts artists were chosen to create six wheatpaste murals total to decorate the town of Montague, a public art project funded by a $15,000 grant. The most local of the three – graphic designer and illustrator Sophie Foulkes – recently installed her murals at Montague Town Hall and 20 Masonic St. in Montague.


Catharsis meets comedy: ‘Customers From Hell’ show will premiere at the Shea Theater on Sunday, June 15
06-13-2025 10:08 AM

By CAROLYN BROWN

Most people who have worked retail and food service jobs have dealt with customers who were rude, annoying, or just plain strange. A new comedy TV series written and filmed in the Pioneer Valley wants to answer the question: what if those customers were actually from Hell?


‘Once I started playing the organ, I was hooked’: Beloved longtime minister of music Dick Matteson bids farewell
05-16-2025 9:08 AM

By CAROLYN BROWN

After 65 years playing and directing church music, 17 of those as First Church Amherst minister of music, Dick Matteson is ready to celebrate his legacy with the Pioneer Valley. He plans to retire next month, and a farewell concert will be held this Saturday, May 17, at 2 p.m.


Lesbian bar opens in Greenfield: Last Ditch is the new space for the Valley’s queer community
04-25-2025 10:11 AM

By CAROLYN BROWN

Western Massachusetts has a new lesbian bar and performance venue.


Bach and better than ever: UMass Amherst biennial Bach Fest returns April 25-27 with a multitude of concerts and symposia
04-18-2025 9:26 AM

By CAROLYN BROWN

An Amherst festival dedicated to a famous Baroque composer is coming … Bach.


‘Art in the Age of Human Impact’: New exhibition at UMass explores complex relationship between humans and nature
04-04-2025 10:34 AM

By CAROLYN BROWN

The total impact that humans have had on the environment may be hard to measure, but a new exhibition at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s University Museum of Contemporary Art, running through Friday, May 9, aims to show some of that impact and create conversations about how artists respond to it with their work.


Here to help the community’s artists: Human Scale Art Space aims to advance visual arts in the Pioneer Valley
04-04-2025 10:33 AM

By CAROLYN BROWN

It’s not uncommon for a small nonprofit not to have a physical space. It is, however, ironic when that nonprofit itself is called Human Scale Art Space.


Macbeth, up close and personal: Second annual Montague Shakespeare Festival puts a new spin on the ‘psychological dark power drama’
03-21-2025 9:42 AM

By CAROLYN BROWN

By the pricking of my thumbs, “Macbeth” to Franklin County comes!


Climb every mountain: Valley photographer’s new book chronicles transformative Appalachian Trail thru-hike
03-21-2025 9:37 AM

By CAROLYN BROWN

Some people dream of taking months away from their jobs to hike the Appalachian Trail. For local photographer Carly Rae Brunault, hiking the trail from Georgia to Maine and meeting people along the way helped her deal with grief – and she’s since turned that experience into a book.


Back Porch Festival returns next weekend: Tribute to Neil Young, ‘Bluegrass Spectacular’ and Lucinda Williams will headline
02-28-2025 10:26 AM

By CAROLYN BROWN

The roots music festival Back Porch Festival, which takes place in downtown Northampton, will return for its 11th year from Friday, March 7, through Sunday, March 9, with more than 60 performers.


‘We called each other hermanas’: Colleagues remember beloved UMass voice professor, Paulina Stark
02-21-2025 11:21 AM

By CAROLYN BROWN

Paulina Stark, a professor emerita of voice at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1985 to 2005, passed away earlier this month at the age of 88.


‘There’s a majesty to grief’: Poet and UMass professor Peter Gizzi wins prestigious 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry
01-31-2025 9:48 AM

By CAROLYN BROWN

Peter Gizzi, professor of poetry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, recently won the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, one of the world’s most prestigious poetry awards.


‘Not your mama’s ‘Newsies’’: Amherst Community Theater production updates the musical with women and nonbinary characters
01-10-2025 10:38 AM

By CAROLYN BROWN

Fans of the Disney musical “Newsies” generally know the titular group of characters as boys, but a local theater company’s upcoming production is expanding the show to include female and nonbinary characters.


Classical at the club: Series at The Drake makes new room for chamber music
01-03-2025 10:56 AM

By CAROLYN BROWN

Most people don’t see local bars as venues for classical music, but a concert series at The Drake in Amherst is helping redefine and expand where classical music belongs.Chamber@The Drake, the venue’s classical music series, brings performers to play...


Love is in the airwaves: Queer dating radio show creates connections and community
12-20-2024 9:52 AM

By CAROLYN BROWN

Finding love is all about finding someone on your wavelength. A radio show at the University of Massachusetts Amherst wants to help the local queer community make romantic connections, one guest DJ at a time.On the show “Queer Yenta Radio Hour,” which...


Drum roll, please: Longtime UMass percussion instructor Thom Hannum inducted into Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame
11-29-2024 9:43 AM

By CAROLYN BROWN

Thousands of University of Massachusetts Amherst students have learned from percussion instructor Thom Hannum, whose 40-year career at the college included a tenure as the assistant director, then associate director, of the Minuteman Marching Band...


50 years of ‘Free to Be’: New exhibition at Eric Carle Museum celebrates thinking beyond gender stereotypes
11-22-2024 11:29 AM

By CAROLYN BROWN

The album “Free to Be… You and Me,” released by Marlo Thomas in 1972, inspired a generation to think beyond gender stereotypes. Now, the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst is celebrating the “Free to Be...” project’s lasting legacy and impact in a new...


By dessert, ‘You’re in outer space’: Chef Matthew Brehm caters multi-course cannabis-infused meals in the Valley
10-25-2024 4:49 PM

By CAROLYN BROWN

A local chef is bringing a new meaning to the phrase “getting baked.”Chef Matthew Brehm is the owner of Upscale Cannabis Wine Dinners, which provides catered brunches and dinners with weed-infused dishes. He operates out of western Massachusetts, but...


‘One sentence can change the course of a relationship’: Valley Players stage first full production, ‘Constellations,’ this weekend and next
10-11-2024 9:58 AM

By CAROLYN BROWN

Valley Players, a local volunteer theater group formed earlier this year, will perform their first full production in Amherst this weekend and next.The show, “Constellations,” by playwright Nick Payne, will be at Munson Memorial Library in Amherst...

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