by Hunter Styles | Sep 22, 2015 | Articles, Featured, News, Wellness
Mariette Poginy sighs, pivots in her porch chair, and looks across Norwood Street in Greenfield, where the banging of hammers and the whining of drills emanate from the former Lunt Silversmiths factory. If all goes according to plan, the vacant and overgrown building...
by Hunter Styles | Sep 16, 2015 | Food + Booze, News, Taste-Off!
The staff of the Advocate realized something this week: we are really full of pizza. That’s what you get when you commit to judging a blind-tasting contest between 27 of the Valley’s best by-the-slice pizza establishments. In round one, back in March, we chowed down...
by Hunter Styles | Sep 14, 2015 | Arts, News
Phil Lawrence presents: One Death/An Installation A.P.E. Ltd. Gallery 240 Main St., Northampton The spare but intriguing new Northampton exhibit by local artist Phil Lawrence is something of a paradox: it grapples with a powerful theme in a style that obscures its...
by Hunter Styles | Sep 14, 2015 | Articles, Featured, Food + Booze, News, Taste-Off!
Drum roll please … After four rounds of blind taste-tests of cheese slices from 27 pizzerias across the Valley — from Greenfield to Springfield — the Advocate staff is ready to announce the winner of our summer slice smackdown. Without knowledge of where the...
by Hunter Styles | Sep 8, 2015 | Arts, Music
Albert Cummings Someone Like You (Blind Pig) Singing the blues sends you down a deep well of tradition, and Massachusetts-born roots rocker Albert Cummings dives in headfirst. His effusive and fun-loving seventh album, which barrels down the road packing songs of love...
