by Kristin Palpini | May 20, 2015 | Arts
There are plenty of ways to tell we’re on the cusp of summer in the Valley. There are the many shades of green, the blooms bursting into view, and the green clouds of marauding pollen. Among the most reliable ways to note that Memorial Day is about to arrive to...
by Kristin Palpini | May 6, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Leisure, Music, News, Scene Here, Stage
It’s the final performance of the 2015 Springfield Symphony Orchestra season and the 71-year-old group has put together a timely show, The Rite of Spring with Spencer Myer on piano. Buses for retired living communities line the street outside. Inside Symphony Hall,...
by Kristin Palpini | May 20, 2015 | Between the Lines, News
Not to sound like too much of a curmudgeon, but South Hadley should stay off the damn grass. The town recently joined Springfield in being the only communities in the area that impose fines when grass on a private lawn grows to a pearl-clutching height of six inches....
by Kristin Palpini | May 7, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Food + Booze, Leisure, News
On Cinco de Mayo the Advocate threw a party at the Log Cabin in Holyoke for the first place winners of the 2015 Best Of the Valley Readers Poll competition. There was a photo booth there … things got silly, here’s the proof.
by Kristin Palpini | Apr 28, 2015 | Articles, Featured, Food + Booze, Taste-Off!
Dueling Donut Podcast Homer Simpson said it best when he drooled out, “mmmm … donuts.” That pretty much says it all: fried, crispy, sugary-sweet, warm, melty cake. Or for short “mmmmmm.” For this Taste-Off! the Advocate staff searched around the Valley for the...
