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First Night 2016 in Northampton!

Music. Theater. Dance. Puppetry. Fireworks! A 12-hour, family-friendly festival of the arts culminating in a traditional ball-raising from the roof…

Star Wars Day with Wilco!

This Friday is Star Wars Day! Listen to the River and any time you hear a song from Wilco’s latest…

Win tickets to see ADELE!

Her long-awaited world tour comes to Boston this fall and you can win tickets before you can buy them! Enter…

Win tickets to see The National at MASS MoCA!

Win tickets before you can buy them, enter here for your chance to see The National at MASS MoCA on…

Arts Night Out is tonight in Northampton!

Free, fun art exhibits all over Northampton, plus Christmas caroling from the Smith College Smiffenpoofs, the first women’s a cappella…

Who Made it Into The Top 93 of 2015?

  Here are the results. And congratulations to Esther Coler from Ashfield (who voted for Bahamas “All The Time In…

Get in the Holliday spirit!

Snow or no snow, get in the Holliday spirit with hundreds of other Christmas carol fans! Joan Holliday’s Holiday Hootenanny…

Save 50% on LOCAL gift certificates this Cyber Monday!

Shop local this Cyber Monday and save 50% on gift certificates to local businesses! No secret codes, no gimmicks. Everything…

$150,000 for the Food Bank of Western Mass!!!

What an amazing 48 hours…from the food desert of the Mason Square neighborhood in Springfield, through Holyoke, Chicopee, Northampton, Hadley,…

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