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Making movies more accessible to Spanish-speaking families in Franklin County
Greenfield Garden Cinemas has partnered with TheaterEars to make first-run movies available in Spanish for the first time in Franklin County. The TheaterEars program is available in the App Store and Google Play on all smartphones and is free of charge. Spanish speakers who live in or are visiting the...
13th World opens Palmer fright park for “Halfway to Halloween” event this weekend
Halloween enthusiasts, mark your calendars! 13th World Fright Park is set to host its first-ever "Halfway to Halloween" event on Saturday, May 18, to celebrate the midpoint of the 2024 Halloween season.
Asparagus ice cream is a classic in Western Mass. I ate it so you don’t have to
Asparagus ice cream sounds like a gimmick. It is not. Western Mass. does not mess around with its “Hadley Grass.”. Yes, it’s green and has bits of real asparagus in it. But there’s a reason Flayvors of Cook Farm has been making “Hadley Grass” for 20 years. It’s actually a pretty well-thought-out and tasty ice cream flavor.
New owners reopen Iron Horse Music Hall this week, still waiting to hear about liquor license
A new façade graces the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, Massachusetts. The storied venue for folk, pop and jazz had been shuttered for years. It reopens under new ownership May 15, 2024. Following extensive renovations over the last eight months, the historic Iron Horse Music Hall reopens this...
May 14, 2024: All Iron Guthries
Monte and Kaliis are with Jordi Herold, Iron Horse co-founder, David Sokol, music editor, Dylan Gaffney, local historian, and Mary Gravel, long-time Iron Horse employee. The iconic music venue in Northampton, The Iron Horse, is on the eve of its long-awaited revival. Returning from a partly COVID-induced hiatus, we’re interested in getting into the history of the beloved establishment with a wide swath of folx who've watched its evolution.
Summer Guide 2024: Drink in fresh air with beers at beer gardens, patios
For some folks, there is nothing quite like a refreshing beer in the warmer months. And for many of those people, the delight is even more amplified by quaffing their favorite beverage outdoors. Luckily for Western Massachusetts beer fans, the area has no shortage of al fresco drinking places. While...
Master Singers of Worcester present 'Considering Matthew Shepard' 25 years since his death
When Ed Tyler first looked at Craig Hella Johnson's 2016 choral suite "Considering Matthew Shepard," he knew right away he was getting involved with a work of greatness. The composition is a heartfelt response to the murder of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay student at the University of Wyoming in Laramie who was kidnapped, beaten, tied to a fence and left to die on the night of Oct. 6, 1998.
Culture to Do: May 15, 2024
Thursday, May 16 at 7 p.m. Singer-songwriter Anders Osborne describes his new album, Picasso's Villa, as "a condensed story about living in America between 2018-2021, the fears, confusion, deep joy and peace achieved through true friendship, family, community, hours of meditation and detachment from ego." After living and performing in New Orleans for almost four decades Osborne has become a fixture of the musical community there. Americana singer-songwriter Greg Loftus has spent the better half of the last decade living in Austin honing his songwriting skills and fronting the Alt-Country outfit Carpetbagger.
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