by Advocate Staff | Aug 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
At a concert a bit ago, I was dancing in the front row when the familiar aroma of bright piney buds wafted by. It didn’t take long to find the source, as a friendly gorilla finger was passed down the line. The sweaty dude in the neon pink fluorescent cap exhaled a big...
by Advocate Staff | Aug 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
About 7 years ago, I was tattooed by Bravo at Vipers Nest II in West Springfield. The past 20 years, technology and computers have always been a passion of mine. I’m an IT [information technology] consultant and learned a tremendous amount of knowledge from...
by Kristin Palpini | Jul 25, 2016 | Articles, Featured, News
In the Pioneer Valley, recycling feels like a given, but that’s a false sense of environmental do-gooding.There are multiple bins for your paper, plastics, and trash — and in some communities, for compost — in just about every public outdoor and indoor space. But...
by Kristin Palpini | Jul 25, 2016 | Articles, Between the Lines, News
At 1 p.m. on a weekday in Chicopee earlier this month, a 15-year-old boy accompanied by two friends was allegedly banging so hard on the triple pane window of a stranger’s door that it broke the first of three layers of glass. The youth never made it through the door,...
by Advocate Staff | Jul 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
A lot of people shout down the phrase “Black Lives Matter,” and on a moral level, we don’t see how that’s possible. There must be a misunderstanding, right? Black lives do not matter more. They are not more valuable than than Blue Lives, or All Lives. Black lives...
