An Assortment

Of Things

Reclining Buddha in a Northampton alleyway.



Avant-garde filmmaker Ted Lee at Feeding Tube Records.



Here is renowned rock fiddler Eric Lee at Amherst's Black Sheep Deli.



Luke Arevill outside the Haymarket in Northampton.



The old piano in Sam's.



While deleting old pictures from my camera today I came across these shots I'd forgotten about that I took this summer at the abandoned quarry on Mount Tom (that's Mount Thomas to you, buddy!)

No photo can capture the enormity of the wound to the mountain.



Of course in order to go there to get that picture meant ignoring a No Trespassing (or thanks to a prankster vandal, "No Assing" sign) but such barriers mean nothing to the determined citizen journalist.



But be careful when exploring such a place - you never know what kind of maniacs you might run into!



View from atop Tower Square (Baystate West) in Springfield by Roger Devine.



In 2008 some people snuck into the old Uniroyal plant in Chicopee and created a fascinating photo essay.



To check out their adventures click here.

A major new release by Henning Ohlenbusch of Northampton.


Rare 1980's bag from State Line in Wilbraham

from the Pete Sorbi Collection.

Wilbraham Cop

Tells his Tragic Tale.

Wow, listen to this shocking video about what went down in the Springfield suburb of Wilbraham, Massachusetts.



Thoughts

Bumperstickers I would put on my car if I had one.










Eclipse Plus

Hey my buddy Zak has opened his new restaurant called Eclipse. Here he is working in the kitchen this morning.



It's a real classy joint. Dig this artistic shiny wooden eclipse embeded in the floor.



Here's the bar area. Ya gotta check this place out for yourself! It is located in the heart of downtown Northampton by City Hall.



A biker observes a painter at UMass yesterday. Things are quiet while the students are on Spring Break.



When I was young you could always tell the upper class kids at UMass from the scholarship kids because the ones with money came back to campus from Spring Break with tans while the rest of us were still winter white because we had to stay in the area to work jobs.

The Music Section

Too cool.



Beyond cool.