STREET LEVEL SOUNDS

  Thom Sullivan has worked to merge the visual arts and poetry in his new curatorialposition at Hadley’s Flying Object.

Any remnants of the New England winter have gone away as summer weather begins to set in for the Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts. Along with the weather comes the opening of Tuesday Market, a farmer’s market in downtown Northampton. Ben James and Oona Coy founded...

Linda Henry played the piano as a child for about five years and then stopped playing. But then, as an adult, she discovered something new — playing the piano for contra dancing. “It’s almost as if it’s a different instrument because I’m not playing from written music,...

    Being that Hampshire College does not offer a grad school, faculty sometimes turn to recent alumni to help them with their work. A new book of poetry coming out on Ugly Duckling press edited by a Hampshire Professor showcases some of her former students.

As this Sexual Awareness Month is coming to an end, take a few minutes out to listen to NEPR’s interview with Ali Safran: a junior at Mount Holyoke College, who created a Sexual Assault Awareness Project titled Surviving in Numbers, to extend a healing hand to all the...

If you run a Google search for Eric Reeves, you’re likely to come up with the Smith College English professor’s abundant research and writing on Sudan. He has written two books about the genocide in Darfur and conflict in greater Sudan and his research has been...

  A tropical paradise. That was my first thought when I stepped into the conservatory at Magic Wings in South Deerfield. Even after talking to Kathy Fiore, the general manager and co-owner of Magic Wings, I was not totally prepared for this experience. Fiore says...

“I’m grateful I had that drive”. That’s what Ada Chupp said about her motivation to break the mold and carve her own, fulfilling, journey through life. For women of non-traditional college age, the Ada Comstock Scholars Program at Smith College allows for...