Thinking about adding a #dog to your family? We and several of our coalition partners are waiving adoption fees next week for all dogs aged one and older! Across 10 shelters, we’re hoping to rehome at least 100 #dogs during the week long event, which we're calling Big Dog Energy 1/

From the ICE task force: “As details of the situation in Sunderland have come to light, it has been requested that we not have a stand out in Sunderland today--such action will possibly make the situation worse for the individual or individuals involved. If you spread the word already, please spread the word that there will not be an action in Sunderland this afternoon [Thursday] at 4:00.”
#ice #immigration #westernmass #massachusetts #handsoff

Did the coolest interview today for an upcoming edition of my Freak Scene newsletter. It'll be out soon, but in the meantime, there are 60 back issues to browse, and tons of music to discover:
#music #WesternMass
https://buttondown.com/freakscene/archive/

Ooh! This looks like fun! The UMass Library is coordinating #WesternMass participation in the City Nature Challenge with iNaturalist: https://guides.library.umass.edu/c.php?g=1007933#s-lg-box-23594122

Wrote about the first album in 14 years from Alison Krauss & Union Station, which -- #westernmass angle! -- features contributions of a kind from Tim Eriksen of Northampton band Cordelia's Dad. My take, for Paste:
#music
https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/alison-krauss/alison-krauss-union-station-re-emerge-with-arcadia

New Freak Scene! This week, Western MA band the Lucky Shots are back with a new album, and CT musician Michael Larocca has a solid two hours of solo drum tracks for you -- nay, for all us.
#music #WesternMass #Connecticut
https://buttondown.com/freakscene/archive/freak-scene-59-the-lucky-shots-second-tongue/

I'm going to be selling books at the Amherst Global Village Festival! I'll be taking my fiction and my books of Esperanto haiku. I ordered a few extra copies to have plenty… https://www.amherstma.gov/3847/Global-Village-Festival #WesternMass

Time for a #waterfall, even if it's not #waterfallwednesday

https://adam-gladstone.pixels.com/featured/bash-bish-falls-in-color-adam-gladstone.html

#photography #berkshires #westernmass #newengland #buyintoart #ayearforart #fineartamerica @fineartamerica #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #wallart #bashbishfalls

Here's some #photography done in the #berkshires (AKA #westernmass
https://adam-gladstone.pixels.com/featured/adams-overlook-in-sepia-adam-gladstone.html

At the Town Hall by Jm McGovern (D-MA) and a large auditorium is filled. Got here well beforehand and I’m in the balcony (which is fine)
#massachusetts #westernmass #townhall #democrats

In the latest Freak Scene newsletter, we hear from banjo player/historian Max Wareham, and bring you the scoop on what's going into the former Majestic space in Northampton and more:
#music #WesternMass #Connecticut
https://buttondown.com/freakscene/archive/freak-scene-57-max-wareham-dagommit/

I’ve signed up to attend the disco dance event with Western Mass Solidarity & Action on Saturday, Mar 15, 2025. Are you with me?? I suck at dancing but I don’t care

Use this link to sign up: https://mobilize.us/s/fXVSSL

I uncharacteristically heard voices, looked out, and realized that today is the so-called "blarney blowout." Streams of undergraduates are walking past my house to attend parties in North Amherst. I don't see any with BORGs this year. #westernmass

New Freak Scene! This week, with albums from Kris Delmhorst and Taxidermists, plus NEW MUSIC from Perennial, who should be your new favorite band if they aren't already. What a time to be alive.
#WesternMass #Connecticut #music
https://buttondown.com/freakscene/archive/freak-scene-56-kris-delmhorst-ghosts-in-the-garden/

New Freak Scene! This week, we hear recent music from Easthampton's Moon Hollow and New Haven's the Moon Shells, plus Peter Mulvey tells it like it is:
#WesternMass #Connecticut #music
https://buttondown.com/freakscene/archive/freak-scene-55-moon-hollow-moon-shells/

Our Missed Connections adoptathon continues today at NINE shelters across #Massachusetts! Learn more here, via WHDH: https://whdh.com/news/mspca-angell-hosting-missed-connections-adoption-event/

I wanted to go to the gathering (protest, demonstration?) in Springfield today but it was cold and windy. Dog wouldn’t even pee outside.

Thanks to anyone that turned out. I guess I’m sort of a Musk victim.

This week in Freak Scene, the latest from Outro, a new album from The Will Call and an idea for Fountains of Wayne:
#WesternMass #music
https://buttondown.com/freakscene/archive/freak-scene-53-outro-broken-promise-ep/