by Advocate Staff | Feb 2, 2024 | Arts, Featured, Uncategorized
By DON STEWART For the Advocate There are those who see winter not as a season but as a siege. They tire of shoveling white glittering fractals from their driveways and see snow as the unnecessary freezing of water. If you’re among those who don’t consider the frozen...
by Advocate Staff | Feb 2, 2024 | Arts, Featured, Music, Uncategorized
By STEVE PFARRER Staff Writer Back in the 1980s, Jack Frisch, then in his early twenties, got bitten pretty hard by the jazz bug, taking the ferry from his home in Staten Island, New York, over to Manhattan with some friends and haunting record shops. His interest had...
by Advocate Staff | Jan 26, 2024 | Arts, Featured, Food + Booze, Food Booze and Beyond, Music, Staff Picks, Uncategorized
By STEVE PFARRER Staff Writer When John Piskor opened his Cajun-style restaurant, Gombo Nola Kitchen & Oyster Bar, in Northampton last year, he said he eventually wanted it to turn it into something akin to a New Orleans cafe, where people come out for a drink and...
by Advocate Staff | Jan 26, 2024 | Articles, Careers & Education, Featured, Film, Staff Picks, Uncategorized, Wellness
By STEVE PFARRER Staff Writer Dr. Khama Ennis had come a long way in her medical career. Until 2022, the Amherst resident had spent about two decades in emergency medicine, including a number of years as chief of emergency medicine at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in...
by Advocate Staff | Jan 26, 2024 | Arts, Featured, Stage, Uncategorized
By STEVE PFARRER Staff Writer Looking for some talented older actors who can play a wide range of roles? Who have decades of experience in theater, film and television? Raye Birk and Candace Barrett Birk are at your service. The Florence couple, relatively new...