The Great Pumpkin Spice Taste Test 2016
Not all Pumpkin Spice is created equal. On the high-end of powdered pumpkin and spice is Starbuck’s Pumpkin Spice Latte — a creamy concoction that blankets pumpkin pie nostalgia in hot caffeine. It tastes nothing like the weaponized spice flavor deployed by Creative...
Don’t Light Up Yet: Recreational marijuana in Massachusetts is going to roll out slowly
Before you step outside puffing on a celebratory fattie, know that, despite the vote on Tuesday, recreational marijuana isn’t legal in Massachusetts, yet.That’ll happen on Dec. 15, when the ballot measure goes into effect. And even when Dec. 15 comes, the state is...
From Coal to Sol! Holyoke’s Mt. Tom Generating Plant is making the switch to solar, but its dirty past lurks
It was an intense meeting in the winter of 2015: On one side of the room sat the owners and operators of the Mt. Tom Generating Plant, a coal-fired power station on Route 5 in Holyoke. On the other were 60 community members and environmental activists. Carlos...
Fire! Fire! Get Your 2016 Presidential Election Commemorative Poster at the Advocate
For the 2016 presidential election, Valley Advocate arts and production director Jennifer Levesque designed two posters: one for each candidate. The winner of the election got their poster on the cover (and back) of this week’s Advocate. Download Trump, but...E-Edition
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