by Hunter Styles | Mar 22, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Film
Distributed by A24In theaters nationwideIn this newest installment of the Advocate’s Scary Movie Club, two staffers — horror movie buff Jen Levesque and total wimp Hunter Styles — finally got to see the highly-reviewed horror flick The Witch last week. Set on a lone...
by Hunter Styles | Mar 14, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Music, Stage
When you browse the faded pages of an historical account, local lives don’t always shimmer to the surface. But Hampshire College professor of History Susan Tracy noticed a few intriguing details when she was paging through the 1870 census for Colrain, the small...
by Hunter Styles | Mar 14, 2016 | Articles, Columns, Food + Booze, The Beerhunter
The dumbest thing I ever did on a date was to invite my lucky lady off-campus for an Indian dinner of vindaloo. The dish was so spicy that I spent half an hour struggling to force small talk out through my seized-up throat (luckily, the chili peppers hit her just as...
by Hunter Styles | Feb 29, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Music
In 1972, the first man-made spacecraft left our Solar System. The Pioneer 10 probe could detect and record solar wind particles, magnetic fields, and UV light, but it also had a message to deliver. Mounted on the craft was a plaque, designed by NASA with help from...
by Advocate Staff | Feb 29, 2016 | Articles, MGM Springfield Casino coverage, News
LET’S GET IT STARTED: MGM had been waiting on approval from the Springfield City Council for proposed changes to the casino site plan, but also on something even more important: the council’s permission for the city to amend the host community agreement with the...