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Hilda Garcia, left, of Indian Orchard, and Corey Jourdin and Colin Passa, both of Easthampton, sit together at Cottage Street Cafe inside Riverside Industries in Easthampton earlier this month.

Strong roots, still growing: Riverside Industries turns 50

by Steve Pfarrer May 11, 2018

Stephen Platt, a Chinese history professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has published three books on modern Chinese history.

‘I write what I would love to read’: Award-winning historian Stephen Platt pens new book on the 19th-century Opium War

by Steve Pfarrer Staff WriterMay 10, 2018

From left, Jake Goldman, Emily Eagan and Dave Simons of the Muswell Hillbillies rehearse in the basement of Simons’ home in Hadley.

The Muswell Hillbillies channel Tom Petty

by Steve Pfarrer Staff WriterMay 2, 2018

Charles Neville arrives with The Neville Brothers on stage to perform during the 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at the New Orleans Fairgrounds Racetrack in New Orleans.

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Legendary jazz artist Charles Neville remembered by his Valley friends

by Steve Pfarrer Staff Writer April 27, 2018

Screenwriter and novelist Damien Ober, whose work toggles between history and science fiction, blends the two in his novel “Doctor Benjamin Franklin’s Dream America.” He’s seen here in his Easthampton work area.

Founding Fathers online: writer Damien Ober pens novel of alternative American history

by Steve Pfarrer Staff WriterApril 25, 2018

Fashion designer Sarah Aphrodite is seen alongside one of her “in-progress pieces in her Northampton home. The design features a belt, which is signature of her work.

Mighty Aphrodite: Northampton designer fashions unique clothes

by Steve Pfarrer April 20, 2018

Amy Dryansky, Northampton’s poet laureate, has organized a Sunday reading by six poets to honor the immigrant experience and local groups that support new Americans.

Poetry reading celebrates immigrants and local groups that support them

by Steve Pfarrer Staff writerApril 18, 2018

Yao Wu, curator of Asian art at the Smith College Museum of Art, talks about the exhibit she put together, “Modern Images of the Body from East Asia.” At left is a work by Chinese artist Xu Wenhua titled "Volleyball (To Win for the Motherland and People Brings the Biggest Happiness).”

Art as Diplomacy: An inspired curator at Smith College bridges American and Asian ideologies through images

by Steve Pfarrer April 13, 2018

Sam Rush, seen here in the play “Building the Wall” last fall at Northampton’s Academy of Music, hopes the Valley program he co-founded, New Century Theatre, will have a future.

Sam Rush talks about future of New Century Theatre

by Steve Pfarrer Staff WriterApril 12, 2018

Chris Smither’s lastest album, “Call Me Lucky,” on Northampton’s Signature Sounds, is the 18th of his long career.

‘An American original’ and an Amherst presence: Folk/blues veteran Chris Smither debuts new album ‘Call Me Lucky’

by Steve Pfarrer Staff WriterApril 4, 2018