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Soundcheck: Helping Hand Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT
Berkshire Hills Music Academy is a spacious, 40-acre property in South Hadley, just minutes from downtown. The only private, post-secondary residential school for young adults with cognitive or learning disabilities as well as exceptional talent for music, Berkshire Hills was founded in 1999 and ushered...

Nine Mile's Independent Spirit Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT
A local music retailer I know recently said that he had not lost enough money running a store, so he decided to start a record label. Perceived as a thankless and difficult job in any era, running an independent record label in the 21st century means facing innumerable challenges, from the plight of...

Ribbit, Ribbit Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT
Frogs and toads ribbit and peep to mark their territory, attract mates, or even to herald a coming rain. Sometimes certain types of frogs and toads ribbit out of pure, joyous revelry. Those kinds of frogs are marvelous merrymakers who possess an enchanting song. But those frogs are a rare breed, and...

A Joyful Noise Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT
When it comes to gospel singers, few figures are as influential as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who often led a traditional gospel choir while ripping up rock 'n' roll guitar solos on a Gibson SG (the same guitar played by AC/DC's Angus Young). Just after World War II, Tharpe joined forces with...

Nightcrawler: Talk Show and Tell Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT
His band's moniker may be an homage to impaired faculties, but Drunk Stuntmen -fronter Steve Sanderson is notorious for his astute observations. Which is precisely the reason your friendly neighborhood Nightcrawler contacted him after learning that Sanderson had accompanied senior citizen singers/fledgling...

Behind the Beat: Something's Rockin' in Denmark Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT
Rockabilly, that stripped-down combo of hillbilly picking and pomaded '50s cool, is a deceptive genre. A hayseed simplicity seems to lie at the core of its best-known songs—like "Blue Suede Shoes," "Be Bop A Lula" or "Mystery Train"—but proper hep-cat stylings...

All Hail the Queen Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT
For his upcoming role, Lord Russ (aka Russell Brooks) has to shave his entire body. Although he's not baring the full monty, Valley musician Brooks will be more scantily clad than normal in his upcoming one-man show Queen Elvis—The Musical . Set in 1973, the Rocky Horror Picture Show -style...

CD Shorts Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT
James McMurtry Just Us Kids (Lightning Rod Records) James McMurtry's latest is a muscular, masculine look at politics, relationships and life that's not for kids. On "Ruby and Carlos," he sings, "I can't go back to Tennessee/ that NASCAR country's not for me,"...

The Imperative of Rot Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT
There is something almost post-apocalyptic about Bob Horowitz's photography. His preferred subject matter—locations which humans have shaped, abandoned or otherwise altered—begs for verbal description. The implicit stories of places that exude loneliness, such as the one in Salton City...

America: The Movie Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT
Aaron Russo was good at getting Mad as Hell (the name of his TV pilot) and stirring up the muck. The deceased Hollywood producer ( The Rose , Trading Places ) had a penchant for taking on the government and corporations. Russo's outspoken libertarian leanings were the lynchpin of a campaign for...

Freesport: Fight of the Living Dead Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT
Red Sox public address announcer Carl Beane probably won't be confused with Shirley MacLaine anytime soon. But Author Dan Gordon says you'd never know it by some the stories Beane tells of the strange happenings that have occurred at Fenway Park since he took over the announcing duties there....

On the Outs with God Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT
The secular political discord that currently plagues the country is playing itself out on a much smaller scale in many American families, including Markie Hancock's. Raised by devout, born again Christian parents, Hancock spent much of her childhood worshipping and learning about the God to whom...

Cinemadope: Cock of the Walk Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (3 stars) Directed by Nicholas Stoller. Written by Jason Segel. With Jason Segel, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, and Russell Brand. (R) It's hard to believe that so much has been made of a single scene of male nudity, but the publicity surrounding Forgetting Sarah Marshall...

Iron Man 4/30/2008 3:54:14 PM
Robert Downey, Jr. saves the day
Though a Marvel Comics fan, I never thought much of Iron Man.

Bad seeds? 4/30/2008 10:47:14 AM
Errol Morris checks the apples, not the tree, in Standard Operating Procedure
For Errol Morris, film doesn’t show reality, it organizes it in an attempt at arriving at the truth.

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantánamo Bay 4/29/2008 4:14:26 PM
Too much melodrama
The tone shifts erratically, but not enough to blunt the appeal of a bottomless bikini party or Neil Patrick Harris downing ’shrooms and ravaging a whorehouse.

Deception 4/29/2008 3:55:24 PM
Unimaginative erotic thriller
Director Marcel Langenegger has a way with a nocturnal urban landscape, but his feature debut goes splat on the pavement.

The World Unseen 4/29/2008 3:47:45 PM
Totally toothless
The ladies should demand something better.

A Four Letter Word 4/29/2008 3:37:36 PM
Self-reflection and parody
At a certain point in its history, a movie genre achieves self-reflection, pondering the validity of its conventions before it sets forth toward self-parody.

Room to improv 4/30/2008 6:14:06 PM
Paper Thin Stages' damaged charm
The members of Paper Thin Stages— Ed Hadley, Nate McDermott, and John Perotti — have been playing music together since grade school.

The Big Hurt: Beef in brief 4/29/2008 4:42:24 PM
Guess whose guess-what is as raggedy as a mango seed
Ultra-classy rapper Khia, best known for urging America’s ladies to pop their anatomies and America’s men to lick her “crack,” is fixing to put me out of a job.

Backwoods Barbie 4/29/2008 3:52:11 PM
Dolly Parton rolls out the big guns
Dolly Parton should run for president.

Everybody in! 4/29/2008 3:37:38 PM
No Age wish all of you could see them rock
Randy Randall has a cold. To be precise, a debilitating throat infection picked up on a plane somewhere over the Pacific.

Yet another path to enlightenment 4/30/2008 4:24:57 PM
A grammatical spiritual journey
The book is “meant for people who . . . like to have their consciousness of life’s big questions refreshed,” says Weinstein.

Let’s undo the movies 4/30/2008 11:51:50 AM
Chantal Akerman plays with your mind at MIT’s List Center
If those collective behaviors inspired and demanded by the cinema of its witnesses are, in essence, its very boundaries, Belgian-born filmmaker and video artist Chantal Akerman could be considered a smuggler.

Fact and fantasy 4/29/2008 4:44:29 PM
Walid Raad’s installations seek the “truth”
Walid Raad’s installation feels like a Borgesian detective story in which truth is elusive, and cities themselves shiver with post-traumatic stress disorder.

British danger hunter survives more of 'Wild' Fri, 02 May 2008 06:00 EST

Bear Grylls returns with six new episodes of "Man vs. Wild" (9 p.m., Discovery). This is the show in which a former British Special Forces officer is dropped into harrowing locales and forced to survive on the local bugs, plants and other nasty bits.

'Made of Honor' made of cliches Fri, 02 May 2008 06:00 EST

"Made of Honor"

'Biggest Loser' was winning experience Fri, 02 May 2008 06:00 EST

Even though brothers Mark and Jay Kruger didn't win, they lost at least 220 pounds together during the four-and-a-half months of taping the NBC reality show.

VIDEO: Mark and Jay Kruger look back on "Biggest Loser" Thu, 01 May 2008 16:06 EST

Mark and Jay Kruger, who live in Dartmouth and New Bedford respectively, spent over four and a half months on the "Biggest Loser" ranch. The Krugers visited earlier this week and spoke about the experience.

School offers a slimmer 'Music Man' Thu, 01 May 2008 06:00 EST

If huge Broadway musicals sometimes seem too big to handle in one sitting, the Global Learning Charter Public School's production of "The Music Man Jr." knows how to shrink the experience to appealing size.

On 'Lost,' the answers bring more questions Thu, 01 May 2008 06:00 EST

Sometimes, you have to get what you ask for to realize that you don't want it. "Lost" (10 p.m., ABC, TV-14) appears to have entered its "answers" phase, and it's not a pleasant experience.

Leighann Lord brings savvy comedy to Salerno's Thu, 01 May 2008 06:00 EST

From the schoolyard to the battlefield, a good laugh can mean a lot. Leighann Lord learned the power of humor in her days of junior high school, and has continued with that experience up through her opportunity to entertain American troops in the...

Book, film about Eliot Spitzer planned Thu, 01 May 2008 06:00 EST

A book about the rise and stunning decline of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, co-authored by the makers of a book and documentary about the fall of Enron, is being published by Penguin Group (USA), Penguin imprint Portfolio announced Wednesday.

Jack Hanna brings his animal pals to the Z Thu, 01 May 2008 06:00 EST

Through his nationally syndicated television show, "Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures," and hundreds of appearances on other television programs, Jack Hanna has become a household name.

Series finale to feature choir, organ music Thu, 01 May 2008 06:00 EST

At 3 p.m. Sunday, the final event in the 2007-08 Music at St. Anthony's series, a Choir and Organ Concert and Tea, will be presented at St. Anthony of Padua Church in New Bedford.

Renowned Irish musicians perform at museum Friday Thu, 01 May 2008 06:00 EST

Dazzling Irish fiddler Liz Carroll and guitar virtuoso John Doyle will perform in the New Bedford Whaling Museum Theater at 8 p.m. Friday.

Bishop Stang presents Cole Porter classic, 'Anything Goes' Thu, 01 May 2008 06:00 EST

At words poetic they're not pathetic, to borrow some lyrics from Cole Porter.

Best Bets Thu, 01 May 2008 06:00 EST

Where to go and what to do in SouthCoast this week

Blue Point a blue-chip winner Thu, 01 May 2008 06:00 EST

Loring and I took a ride up to Acushnet to pay a visit to the Blue Point Restaurant on a recent Sunday, when yard work had sharpened our appetites to a fine point.

Sosabe Cellars founder is proud of his singular success Thu, 01 May 2008 06:00 EST

Nuias DePina didn't know much, or think much, about wine when he arrived in the Napa Valley in 1974.

Robert Downey Jr. goes from Hollywood zero to superhero — and he's LOVING it Thu, 01 May 2008 06:00 EST

To become a mega-movie star these days, a man must don the tights. With a few notable exceptions like Leonardo DiCaprio, who had the good fortune to be in the highest-grossing movie of all time (that would be "Titanic"), almost every $20-million man has...

A blockbuster with a brain — and a heart Thu, 01 May 2008 06:00 EST

In the hands of Robert Downey Jr., "Iron Man" is a blast — the perfect start to the summer with its shiny mix of visual effects, elaborate set pieces and plenty of humor within its intelligent script.

Owl program comes to Dartmouth Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:05 EST

Who's watching you? Find out Saturday when "Eyes on Owls" presents two live owl programs in conjunction with the Dartmouth YMCA and the Lloyd Center for the Environment.

Melha Shriners Circus Parade Fri, 02 May 2008 2:58:06 UTC

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The new office Fri, 02 May 2008 00:26:27 UTC

I'm really enjoying my new job. Not only the job itself but it's a whole new neighborhood for me to get out and shoot. It's just chock full of old brick buildings and wonderful architectural touches that you just don't see on buildings anymore.

It was a rough start to the week though. All those lovely buildings and nothing but rain, rain and more rain. Finally I was able to get out and about with the camera. It was dazzling. So many buildings, so many little vignettes, so many details just screaming for me to point my lens at. I spent a good 15 minutes out there and frankly, I never left the parking lot and I could have used another day or so of solid shooting to cover all the little things I'm dying to photograph.

Without further ado, here are some of the shots I took.

So. Have you recognized the building? Here's a hint. It's on Hampden Street in Springfield.

Still not enough of a hint?

Ok, then, click here and the new job will be revealed.

Lack of 'Honor': Too few laughs Fri, 02 May 2008 14:12:02 -0400
What was Patrick Dempsey thinking? "Made of Honor," a supposed romantic comedy vehicle for the "Grey's Anatomy" heartthrob, casts Dempsey as...

Familiar heroes check in for summer Fri, 02 May 2008 14:00:50 -0400
The summer movie lineup is a cinematic staycation: entertaining, yes, but on familiar turf. Sequels, remakes, retro re-visioning - studios are taking the tried-and-true...

Metal of honor: 'Iron Man' kick-starts blockbuster season Fri, 02 May 2008 13:51:07 -0400
Forget those loser Superheroes from Planet Teen Angst. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), also known as Iron Man, is a "laundry list of character defects," a...

Wham! Bam! It's blockbuster cam! Fri, 02 May 2008 03:49:33 -0400
Can superheroes save the box office? The summer '08 blockbusters bring a pack of familiar bad-guy-busters to the big screen. But Batman, Iron Man, Hellboy and Indiana...

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