by Advocate staff | Feb 12, 2014 | News
Singing for Seeger Is it just us, or did it seem to you that almost every single person in the Valley had some sort of personal response to the recent death of Pete Seeger—an anecdote about a Seeger song that touched them; a memory of a Seeger performance...
by Stephanie Kraft | Mar 4, 2014 | News
The magnet of the Upper Valley is Northampton, home to Smith College, whose stately brick architecture, perched on a low rise, crowns the bend where Main Street turns to Elm Street. On Main Street, historic buildings with eye-catching architecture—the...
by Advocate readers | Jan 22, 2014 | News
Humane Meat? Not Possible In response to “Here’s the Beef” (January 16, 2014), about the opening of Sutter Meats: trendy words “sustainable,” and “locavore” may ease the minds of meat-eating consumers, but they obscure the...
by Rev. Talbert Swan II | Mar 4, 2014 | News
For the second time in seven months, the American justice system has failed to produce justice, demonstrating that it sees color vividly and in high definition. As the news that Jordan Davis’ killer would not be convicted of murder flooded the airways I sat,...
by Advocate staff | Jan 29, 2014 | News
Droning, Buzzing Confusion By Stephanie Kraft A drone that would track hunters in forests was offered for sale in October, at the beginning of the Massachusetts bow hunting season, by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. PETA says the idea is to spot hunters...