VA16-pickETC-2017

VA16-pickETC-2017

by | Apr 17, 2017 | Uncategorized

Nevertheless …Democrat and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren’s new book, This Fight is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America’s Middle Class, published April 18, champions progressive economic policies by examining how the United States built its strong middle class from...
The DO NOT WATCH List

The DO NOT WATCH List

by | Apr 17, 2017 | Articles, Film, Uncategorized

  This week, our resident Stream Queen Lena Wilson offers a journey into some high-minded flicks beyond old Cheech and Chong movies (see pg. 18). But Advocate staff thought it equally important to share a blacklist of movies and TV shows to avoid when high — at...
VA16-pickMUSIC-2017

VA16-pickMUSIC-2017

by | Apr 17, 2017 | Uncategorized

Righteous WeirdnessThe happy Valley bubbles daily with politics, but we could certainly stand to be louder about it. Enter, stage left: Out of System Transfer, Brooklyn’s “gonzo anti-folk punk rock radical leftist hootenanny.” Their funny and fierce tunes blend the...
VA16-pickSTAGE-2017

VA16-pickSTAGE-2017

by | Apr 17, 2017 | Uncategorized

Birds of a FeatherThe Majestic Theater concludes its 20th anniversary season with the musical La Cage aux Folles, written by Jerry Herman and Havey Fierstein. The play, which won Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Book for its original 1983 Broadway...
VA16-pickART-2017

VA16-pickART-2017

by | Apr 17, 2017 | Uncategorized

The Pagemaster Orange-based artist Keila Ploof loves to rescue books from her local recycling center. Those pages take on second lives when Ploof turns them into original artworks using paint and charcoal. In Ploof’s environmentally-friendly hands, each piece of paper...