Arts & Leisure
Light, canvas, action: Robert Sweeney retrospective at Eli Marsh Gallery
February 5, 2010
Giving the Cook's tour of his 10-year retrospective exhibition of paintings at Eli Marsh Gallery has put longtime painter and Amherst College art professor Robert Sweeney in reflective mode. Retrospectives do that. Like the visitors to the show, the artists see things they've never seen before.
Four Sundays: From collegiate a cappella to the 'Really Big Shoe'
February 5, 2010
Members of Sonos, a professional a cappella group, have been working to transform the medium ever since they graduated the Los Angeles-area college a cappella scene a decade or more ago.
Four Sundays ticket information
February 5, 2010
Advance tickets are available online at northamptonartscouncil.org. or by calling the Northampton Arts Council at 587-1069. Tickets may also be purchased at Food For Thought Books in Amherst and at State Street Fruit Store and Guild Art Centre in Northampton.
TableTalk: Fun food fests for February
February 5, 2010
New Year's Day finds most of us thanking goodness that the hurly burly of the holidays is over, ready to cocoon at home quietly keeping warm with favorite foods. (Not, of course, the fattening ones - forbid the thought!)
Arts organizations rally for Haiti relief
February 5, 2010
These organizations are holding events to help raise funds for Haiti in the wake of deadly the Jan. 12 earthquake there. All proceeds will go to Partners In Health, an organization that has provided health care in Haiti for over 20 years. For information about Partners In Health and its ongoing work in Haiti, visit www.standwithhaiti.org/haiti.
Subjects wanted: Cooley Dickinson launches clinical trials
February 5, 2010
You may have received one of the neon-yellow fliers in the mail: "Are you or someone you know ...75 years of age or older and not taking a Vitamin D supplement? ..."
Art Briefs
February 5, 2010
Renaissance Center's midwinter events
In Greek mythology Anteros was the god of mutual love and the punisher of those who scorn the loving advances of another - in other words, a handy guy to have around. The Renaissance Center in Amherst celebrates the upcoming international romance day by hosting a talk on the myth of Anteros by Craig Stephenson, a Jungian analyst based in Paris. He will present "Wrestling with Eros: The Myth of Anteros and its Meanings" Feb. 11 at 7:30 p.m. at the center at 650 East Pleasant St. The talk is free and open to the public.
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Lifestyles: All the new that's fit to print
By BRUCE WATSON
O cowardly new world that has such people in it.
--The New Shakespeare
Along with "cowardly," the operative word here is "new." So many things are new in our new age. Massachusetts conservatives and corporations that speak! Teabaggers and iPads and Republicans suddenly panicked about the deficit they ballooned!
