Film Recommendation: It’s a Wonderful Life
Most of our interns don’t remember a time when old movies were shown on TV all the time, and it was a pleasure to watch your annual favorites. Now that…
Book Recommendation: The Element In The Room
Track down the amazing matter around you and it can give you clues to the universe itself. Join Sherlock Ohms, the super-scientific detective in The Element In The Room. This…
Book Recommendation: The Massasoit House and Paramount Theater
The Massasoit House and Paramount Theater is the latest in the Springfield Republican’s pictorial histories of the Valley, and it illustrates the fascinating timeline of a building which has had…
Book Recommendation: The Muralist
I was eager to read The Muralist by B.A. Shapiro because I enjoyed Shapiro’s “The Art Forger” which intertwined the main character with the unsolved Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist…
Book Recommendation: Vermeer’s Hat
How simple and benign a porcelain dish may seem in a seventeenth century Dutch painting. An object of beauty and luxury? Sure. But the key into an entire world of…