Second Life Herald (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
by Jessica Holyoke Cory Ondrejka and Doctor Ludovico recently announced the Network Culture Challenge from the International Island sim. The University of Southern California's Network Culture Project, in conjunction with the MacArthur Foundation, is inviting the residents of Second Life...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday
Authorities said La Familia is a violent street gang with hundreds of members in cities throughout Massachusetts and the Northeast. The suspects arrested Friday on federal charges were members or associates of the Springfield and Holyoke chapters of the gang.
The Indypendent (Free subscription) | yesterday
... at the Museum of the City of New York, and Daniel Czitrom, professor of history at Mount Holyoke College. The authors summarize Riis’ career, review the facts and history of poverty in 19th-century New York, and look closely at Riis’ photographic achievements. Unfortunately, their prose is static and dull, but Riis’ pictures, classic studies of urban America, are still revealing and shocking....
Domestic Fuel (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
... To keep pace with growing demand, the company recently opened a Biofuels Storage Facility in Holyoke, Massachusetts.” Burke Oil tentatively plans to hold a grand opening event on June 26.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
When I was a cub reporter at the late and much-lamented Transcript-Telegram, I got sent to cover a homicide in one of the less salubrious sections of Holyoke, which is so far west of Boston that some people in Beantown think it's in Montana.
Second Life Herald (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
by Jessica Holyoke I went to the Virtual Law Conference a few weeks back, courtesy of Virtually Blind. While there, I talked to two lawyers who would bring about the end of Second Life (r) as we know it and...
SLAM Online (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... life. Whether it was playing against big stars like Sebastain Telfair or heading to Elms College (Holyoke, MA) and winning three conference championships, the 1,000 point scorer loves ball. SLAM was able to catch up with Mook to discuss his past basketball experiences, the connection between rap and ball and his prediction for this years NBA championship. S : So tell us about your hooping...
Design*Sponge (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
i’m absolutely loving these new furniture designs from bart niswonger of studio cochineal. based in holyoke, massachusetts, bart will be showing in booth #2172 at icff next week. i’ll be sure to cover his booth but in the meantime you can click here for more of bart's work.
Rising Hegemon (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Imagine you are young woman, born in the 1930s, growing up in 1940s and 1950s New York City. You're intelligent and a good student, so you're admitted to one of the City's highly selective specialized high schools, in this case, Bronx Science. You go on to earn an undergraduate degree at the first of the Seven Sisters, Mount Holyoke. You graduate, marry, and spend the 1960s and the 1970s raising...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
ISO-New England issued the advisory yesterday after unexpected outages to a transmission line and a power plant. A spokeswoman for the Holyoke-based company said the outages, combined with scheduled plant shutdowns for spring maintenance, left the grid with a tight electricity supply in the Boston area and the state's northeastern corner.
