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“Locally Grown,” featuring Pioneer Valley subjects photographed by Jerome Liebling, explores the life of the fields and the labors of those who tend them. (Runs in Mead Art Museum through July 29, Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Free.) FLICKS Academy of Music Theater (584-

Dig it?

“I wanted to create a story out of nothing, and then follow the improvisational spirit,” explained Professor of Theater and Dance Wendy Woodson, the director of the project. The plot centers around two female characters’ ambiguous relationship. It is unclear whether they are sisters, twins or anything definite. The two

Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics rule Welsh Britpop

But when you stop looking and start listening, this place does have something to offer the average American. Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci. Catatonia. Super Furry Animals. All bands that emerged from Wales in the ’90s and carved a decent niche for themselves in the world of Britpop. Yet they all

Ideological arguments blur reality

Ideology is a bad word-for good reasons. Ideological thinking is inferior thinking. It is narrow-minded and blind to anything that veers off the ideological path. We rarely choose ideologies for their logical and factual merits. Even when we do, the choice itself limits us to continuing that train

College need not be more liberal with conservative voices

The fact that conservative beliefs are underrepresented is not the issue-they are, without a doubt. A small Massachusetts liberal arts school is bound to be disproportionately liberal; students applying here take that into account, as do potential faculty members. The question is whether the administration should care and whether

All-Stars in Action

If you could take a semester off, what would you do? Megan Shields-Stromsness ’03E took two teaching jobs in her hometown of Oakland, Calif. She left Amherst last spring to teach fourth-graders with severe disabilities at Park Day School and an adult ESL class at Diablo Valley Community

In MARGINALIA, side notes take center stage

There are a couple other gems-a poignant lament on our mortality evokes a scornful “everyone dies, so what?” and a passage replete with descriptive phrases yields the incredibly helpful note: “lots of adjectives.” Of course my favorite has to be the note on page 207, when, following around 206