Foothills teetering ‘on brink’
When the cast of “The Rainmaker” takes its final bow on stage tomorrow afternoon, it could be the last time people will see a Foothills Theatre Company production.
Worcester DA creates domestic violence unit
After years of headlines of boyfriends killing girlfriends or ex-girlfriends, and husbands killing wives and sometimes themselves as well, and even parents killing their children or a son killing his mother, the Worcester District Attorney’s office has created a domestic violence unit.
Hey, Sis, is this proposal for real?
WORCESTER – Our sister city has drawn international attention for her overtures to a new suitor.
Right About Now
Right about now I’m thinkin’, "I could certainly do without any more snow this season." The stuff in the radar image stretches all the way back to Kansas, as of 5 pm today, and it’s all slowly moving northeast.The National Weather Service is predicting the Worcester area will start getting light snow by 4 am [...]
Blindingly Obvious Insight of the Week
It comes from Alan Moore in this Wired interview from Monday:"And I wonder—perhaps this is being too simplistic, I don’t know, but I wonder if the root of the emergence of the superhero in American culture might have something to do with a kind of an ingrained American reluctance to engage in confrontation without massive [...]
A World Social Forum 2009 Report
Worcester Indymedia member reports on the World Social Forum 2009 in Belém do Para, Brazil.
More info and a 5 minute trailer on our film can be found at http://Ciclovida.org
More info about the World Social Forum, including statements from various social movements can be found at http://www.fsm2009amazonia.org.br
Sedition
Sedition –noun. 1. incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.In 1918, the Sedition Act was passed at the urging of Democratic President Woodrow Wilson. The 65th Congress that passed this law had a majority of Democrats in the Senate, and a Republican majority in the House. As mentioned here, though, "…the [...]
"bound" A group exhibit showcasing the work of Diana Cherbuliez, Naoe Suzuki, Marguerite White (Sat, Feb 28)
Clark University: Traina Center for the Arts, Schiltkamp Gallery, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA
The exhibition’s title bound has multiple, contradictory meanings. A restraint and also a leap, fate, or just likelihood, this verb and noun possesses the essence of both freedom and impasse. Cherbuliez, Suzuki and White create artworks that share this mercurial [...]
"Inspiration," A Fine art photography Exhibit by Cheryl Wareck (Sat, Feb 28)
Thayer Memorial Library, 717 Main Street, Lancaster, MA
Cheryl Wareck is a local fine art photographer. She will be exhibiting at the Art On Rotation Gallery all of January and February 2009 during library operating hours. Her work can be viewed at the Art On Rotation Gallery at Thayer Memorial Library in Lancaster, MA. A [...]
"My Funny Valentine" (Sat, Feb 28)
Rollstone Studios, 633 Main Street, Fitchburg, MA
MY FUNNY VALENTINE A VALENTINE-THEMED ART EXHIBITION AT ROLLSTONE STUDIO
FITCHBURG Rollstone Studios presents a new FREE exhibition, My Funny Valentine, featuring heart- and valentine-shaped art pieces. The exhibition opens on First Thursday, February 5 and will be up through the end of the month. I asked [...]