Continuing a 10 year tradition, the V8s hosted the highly popular concert Acafella this past Friday featuring all-male a cappella groups from nearby colleges. Notorious for eliciting screams from the audience, the a cappella groups from UConn, Williams College, Colgate College and UMass Amherst were excited to perform another year […]

Superhero movies are the victors of the box office, so it is no wonder that studios jump at the opportunity to pump more of them into the already saturated market. Even with anticipation building for The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which will be released in May, and the new first-look footage […]

After a stunning year rising to the top of the music charts, Grammy Award nominee Mary Lambert performed at Mount Holyoke College on Sun., Feb. 16 in Chapin Auditorium. The event was planned by MHC Femmepowered and co-sponsored by the Conscious Poets Society, Doing it Live and WMHC Radio. “[Lambert’s] […]

The five live action short films that have been nominated for an Oscar this season can be seen at the Amherst Cinema. The program allows filmgoers to see the shorts the way they are meant to be seen – in a theater with an audience – spaced by interviews with […]

Smooth Sailing for Black Sails The cable network Starz has tried to adapt and reinterpret classic novels in the past. Remember Camelot (2011), starring the infectious Jamie Campbell Bower and fabulous Eva Green? Perhaps it would be better not to. The almost universally panned show seemed to have all of […]

Academy Award winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46, was found dead Sunday morning in his New York apartment, of an apparent drug overdose. Last May, Variety reported that he had participated in a detox program after relapsing. Hoffman had struggled with drug usage throughout his life, as have many other […]