by Matthew Dube | Oct 20, 2011 | Music
Northampton-based avant garde community ensemble Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra is the brainchild of Peter Blanchette, accomplished and acclaimed composer, musician and inventor of the beautiful-sounding arch guitar. He took some time out to explain the project and the...
by Advocate Staff | Oct 20, 2011 | Music
YardworkBrotherer(Lunchbox) The best rock often feels like it’s about to fall apart without actually collapsing. North Carolina’s Yardwork has captured this quality in spades on its debut. Surging and anthemic, woozy and ramshackle, it’s bursting...
by Yana Tallon-Hicks | Oct 20, 2011 | Leisure, The V-Spot
As I write this, Hampshire hipsters are making “awesome connections” over a mutual appreciation of analog photography, Smith girls are wavering on their sexual orientations and Amherst preppies, like a slightly grown-up cast of Gossip Girl, are always in...
by Jack Brown | Oct 20, 2011 | Film
All the hubbub down on Wall Street lately has been a welcome reminder of our American penchant for protest and activism, our calls for revolutions both large and small. In an era that is probably as divided a time as most of us can remember, it’s a...
by Monica Reinagel, M.S., L.D./N. | Oct 20, 2011 | Food + Booze
We hear a lot about the benefits of whole grains—and not just from the people who sell them to us. Getting people to eat more whole grains is also a major pillar of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. We’re told that people who eat more whole grains are...