by Kristin Palpini | Feb 29, 2016 | Articles, Between the Lines, News
The Valley Advocate recently conducted a reader poll and the results are in. Thank you to the hundreds of readers who took the time to fill out or mail in feedback about the paper’s past, present, and future. We also learned a bit more about who Advocate readers are...
by Chuck Shepherd | Feb 29, 2016 | Articles, News, News of the Weird
Longtime National Symphony cellist David Teie announced in November that his crowdfunding project was hugely successful, freeing him to produce an album of music meaningful to cats. Cats, for example, relax in response to the earliest sound of their mother’s purring,...
by Advocate Staff | Feb 24, 2016 | Articles
Free recording studio opens in Northampton Valley creatives have differing reasons to utilize the new, free-to-use David S. Dow Community Recording Studio, which laid down its inaugural tracks Saturday. For his part, 9-year-old Darren Chraplak plans to use it to edit...
by Blaise Majkowski | Feb 24, 2016 | Articles
Blaise’s Bad Movie Guide The Giant Claw, Columbia Pictures 1950s creature-feature clunker My household watched the live version of Grease on TV recently (I can sing “Summer Nights” as off-key as the next joker), and it put me in a 1950s frame of mind. So I decided to...
by Kristin Palpini | Feb 24, 2016 | Articles, Between the Lines, News
D rug testing people before providing them with food assistance has nothing to do with saving states money and everything to do with humiliating illegal substance users. Massachusetts is not among the seven or so states that require some or all low-income residents to...
