I keep saying Easthampton needs a tasty ethnic restaurant. Many a night I’ve wanted take-out or to go out for an inexpensive meal and nowhere has really hit the spot. I’m hoping that this new restaurant does! Anup Sangar, thank you for choosing Easthampton as your new restaurant location. He bought Treydon’s across from Rite Aid. It’s scheduled to open in March. I’ll be there!
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I highly recommend the Popcorn Noir at Popcorn Noir. The first is mexican chocolate drizzled over fresh popcorn the second is the new living room cinema on Cottage St. in happening Easthampton.
Last night we saw Hedwig and the Angry Inch! The perfect film for our inaugural visit to Popcorn Noir. We paid $25 for a V.I.P. yearly membership which means we can make reservations and find out the movie schedule. Something to do with licensing restrictions. For more info on the entrepreneurial duo behind Popcorn Noir, check out this New England Public Radio story on them that aired yesterday morning!
If you’ve never seen Hedwig, the movie trailer:
Matt Johnson's Zag photo by Jean-Pierre Pasche
The past year nature has brought to our new home of New England a tornado, an earthquake, a hurricane and floods.
Perhaps no better way to contemplate nature and the changing of the seasons than with the addition of art, specifically the Art in the Orchard at 82 Park Hill Road in Easthampton MA.
Happy October everyone!
Visual Artist – Maggie Nowinski in Easthampton Oct. 1 as she participated in Arthampton 2011
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Easthampton City Arts+ presents ArtHampton: Showcasing the Arts on October 1, 2011, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. This second annual studio tour day sponsored by the Valley Advocate and made possible by the Massachusetts Cultural Council will feature local artists and artisans who will open their studios and display their work throughout the streets of Easthampton, sharing their processes through demonstrations, exhibits, and performances. Participating restaurants will also offer specials to visitors throughout the day.
When you’re looking for a new community to set down roots and planning to start a family, you have to ask, “How are the schools?”
We were told by un-named residents of Amherst that the schools in Easthampton are terrible that we should be looking to buy in Amherst or possibly Northampton. We were dubious. Parents in our neighborhood seemed to be happily sending their kids off to Maple Elementary School and raved about the after-school program, which has programming that includes hip-hop dance battles, parkour and animation.
sketch of future EHS interior
The high school building did leave a lot to be desired BUT when we were still Easthampton renters, we were able to cast our first Easthampton votes by voting with the community 3-1 to fund a new high school. Not only did this mean we were getting a new high school, it also meant that Easthamptonites were strong supporters of their schools.
We told our real estate agent, “we’re staying in Easthampton!”
Manhan on the News
When we moved to Easthampton in July 2009, we asked if we could get to Northampton on the bike trail. The response we heard was, “yeah, they’re working on it.” We were doubtful. It sounded like one of those long talked about plans that never makes it to fruition. But, lo and behold, today was the ribbon cutting ceremony for the bridge (funded
Stasia & Timon from Cherry St.
entirely by federal stimulus dollars) that gets us over Route 10 and connects us to Northampton and beyond.
After our huge snow accumulation in early February (yes it’s March now so it’s been too long between blog posts, I know I know) I happened to be home (ha!) when the Easthampton Department of Public Works convoy came down our little street to remove the ginormous snow banks. Sorta like spotting the Loch Ness monster!
Let’s go to the video:
So now perhaps you, like me, are left wondering ‘where does all the snow go’?
Stay tuned to find out…
The news was big…mainstream america’s outrageous and contentious political debate hits the streets of Easthampton! Perhaps you saw them driving through town Jan. 11? Or the news coverage regarding the Lyndon LaRouche workers seen in Easthampton (and Holyoke) defending Palin… for being blamed for Arizona shootings… by comparing Obama to Hitler!????
While the jury’s out on what (to be fair, if any) role Sarah Palin’s v – word laden politics (vexing, vitriolic, violent…) may have played in the Arizona shootings, I just don’t get how “Anyone who attacks Sarah Palin is implicity pro-Hitler”? It’s soooo confusing their logic.
So for help, I turned to my favorite interpreter of divisive politics John Stewart who cleared up for me that “some people” are obsessed with comparing their political opponents to Nazis.
Perhaps Seinfeld and the soup Nazi is in part to blame for the laissez faire attitude we americans seem to have going around calling each other Nazi’s all the time. The Godwin Law states Nazi comparisons are pretty much inevitable in online discourse. So if Nazi analogies are inevitable, better strictly for valid comparisons, not um, Obama! ???
Oh! and what bugs me is that the guys who were out there remain… unidentified!
A note from our letter carrier
Our letter carrier left us this note and it is just so ripe for unpacking, deconstructing, psychobabblizing I can’t control myself. First off, the “maybe we should” preamble, with a royal “we” thrown in there, so indirectly direct, it’s as tho’ Jack and I were separated at birth. I love it!
Truth is Stanley and Curley bark madly, practically ferociously, at Jack and just about anything or anybody that passes the house. Meet Stanley and Curley.
Fairly sure “etc.” is a reference to cousin Benny the goldendoodle (who is staying with our neighbor Annette over on Mutter St. these days), tho’ I like the way ‘etc’ acts as a catchall for any other seemingly unfriendly creatures residing here at home.
And finally, the reason for putting the mailbox on the outside of the fence…not so Jack doesn’t have to use his mace on seemingly ferocious lapdogs, not so the dogs don’t escape whilst Jack enters and exits the fenced in area, but so that the dogs “can run wild” on the serengeti that is our yard. Jack Duggan or Jack Hanna?
