A great project, and one I am happy and honored to be involved in.
Derrik Jordan has found a new way to get visionary musicians' work seen and heard. He is a consummate host who always seems to ask the right questions.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
Libby Bennett balanced on a stair stage left in the Latchis' main theater. Hunched over her calculator, the development director for Groundworks Collaborative counted the small piles of cash and checks that surrounded her. Individual donors gave more than $3,000 in cash, checks, and online donations for the eighth annual “Load the Latchis” food drive. Bennett double-checked the numbers. She smiled. “This is the most we've received in cash donations during my tenure,” Bennett said. Volunteers scooted and wove across...
Robert Merfeld will share a lifetime of insights into the world of music making and teaching on Friday, Sept. 1, at 6 p.m., at Everyone's Books on Elliot Street. Merfield has toured the world as a concert pianist and has taught for many years at Harvard, Boston University, and the Longy School of Music. Reflections on his career and his passion for music are revealed in his newly released book, Is it so if you think it's so? Thoughts on...
The season is Advent, when we turn toward the dark of the year and prepare for holiday rituals, a Christian gloss laid over deeper beliefs and ways of knowing that extend further into the past. Not long ago, we experienced the longest night of the year, and the light is slowly starting to return. But it is a dark time right now. I've never known a darker time than this. I've been alive since 1957, the year that Sputnik was...
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