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Staff Picks: Get out there!
TITANIS Farewell Show in Florence – Friday
Springfield’s ambient, heavy doomers TITANIS are bidding farewell? Insert sad face here. Make sure to check them out...
Roomful of Teeth Returns to MASS MoCA
Around the World in 60 Minutes
It’s fitting that the choral group Roomful of Teeth is on tour during the 2016 Olympic Games. For one...
Club Picks: August 18 to 24
FRIDAY: Hello, Westfield!
The sign FREE MUSIC doesn’t always promise a good time, but trust us, we vetted this one for you. Shenanigans hosts Easthampton’s...
99th Time’s the Charm: Heath Fair Runs Aug. 19-21
Fair Play
Family farms are as American as baseball, or a hot apple pie cooling on a breezy windowsill. And just like bases, or pies, farms get stolen. Large-scale...
Pam Tanowitz Dance is Beautifully Strange
Damn, Pam
Choreographer Pam Tanowitz been garnering ever more attention over the past 15 years for creating new dance techniques and styles that spring from classical dance...
EP Release Party: Mystics Anonymous
The Supergroup Next Door
Mystics Anonymous is local singer-songwriter Jeff Steblea’s new musical project, best defined as eclectic independent rock. “With Mystics,” says Steblea, “the whole...
Group Show at the Montague Mill
Wade in the Water
You can step into a peaceful art gallery from the streets of a bustling metropolis and still attain a bit of...
Nightcrawler: Rock the Boot
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Thomas Delmer “Artimus” Pyle comes to the Valley this Saturday, Aug. 20. He’ll be performing with his Artimus Pyle...
Cinemadope: On the Road Again
Alien. Blade Runner. Black Hawk Down. The Martian. Over the decades, director Ridley Scott has built a career on making the kinds of films (often...