by Katie Gartner | Jun 28, 2019 | Articles, Clueless Parent, Columns, Featured
When I was expecting my son, I started to watch YouTube channels about traveling with kids. I felt a little smug sometimes watching a young child run happily through a World Heritage Site during a polished montage set to an indie track. “Oh, please,” I scoffed. “This...
by Advocate Staff | Jun 27, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Staff Picks
Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra at Hawks & Reed // FRIDAY, June 28 The Valley’s own premier guitar orchestra extraordinaire will be performing a show in Greenfield this Friday at Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center. The guitar orchestra is made up of 15...
by Laura Holland | Jun 26, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Featured
Aptly named and thoughtfully installed, The Picture Book Odyssey of Peter Sís (at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art through October 27), lets us follow the artist’s footsteps on a pathway that is anchored in fact but also spins off into fantasy. Born in...
by Advocate Staff | Jun 26, 2019 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, Featured, Podcast
Dave and Trumpy talk about this week’s weird news — stories about disembodied toes, Bill Cosby’s prison lecture series, bringing your daughter to a crime spree, and multiple stories about poop. Listen here: You can hear previous episodes of the...
by Advocate Staff | Jun 24, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Podcast
Lauren Simonds recently wrote a cover story for the Advocate, “An Old Stoner’s Guide to Modern Cannabis.” Here she sits down with editor Dave Eisenstadter on what research for the story was like, and also lamenting the time when stoners knew how to...
