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Board members of The Heavy Culture Cooperative before the first live music event at THCC in Easthampton, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026. DANIEL JACOBI II / Staff Photo ...

While growing up in New England, Jackie Gallo was mesmerized by the trees. As a teenager, she would stand in the middle of the woods in northern Rhode Island — and look up. In the autumn, the canopy ...

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Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro shows Oscar Isaac, who plays Victor Frankenstein, how to revive the dead in del Toro’s 2025 adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel. This weekend, the next ...

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When she was 10 years old, a fourth-grade teacher asked Debora Bridges during a classroom lesson “what it felt like to be a slave” as a “little colored girl.” It happened in 1961. In Amherst. Although ...