by Advocate Staff | Jul 19, 2024 | Featured, Food + Booze, Food Booze and Beyond, Music, Uncategorized
By ALEXA LEWIS Staff Writer Going out with friends can be challenging when clashing tastes in food make it impossible to choose a restaurant. But for Abandoned Building Brewery in Easthampton, the solution to this predicament is simple, and it comes rolling in on four...
by Advocate Staff | Jul 12, 2024 | Arts, Featured, Uncategorized
By EMILEE KLEIN Staff Writer When Webs opened their doors on May 16, the first day of the store’s annual tent sale, store manager Angela Cheek watched as a rush of people flowed through the doors for three whole continuous minutes on a Thursday morning. Within an...
by Advocate Staff | Jul 12, 2024 | Arts, Featured, Leisure, Music, News, Stage, Uncategorized
By PAIGE HANSON For the Advocate For the first time in two years, The Friends of Mount Holyoke Range have returned the Summit House Sunset Concert Series to its namesake, Skinner State Park’s historic Summit House. The Summit House, which sits at a 935-foot elevation...
by Advocate Staff | May 24, 2024 | Arts, Featured, Music, Staff Picks, Uncategorized
By STEVE PFARRER Staff Writer If you go to a milonga, or social dance, to do tango dancing in Buenos Aires, you’ll likely be doing it to live music. In western Massachusetts? No so much. Now, though, Western Mass Tango, which has hosted tango lessons and dances in the...
by Advocate Staff | May 24, 2024 | Arts, Featured, Music, Review, Stage, Uncategorized
By STEVE PFARRER Staff Writer When Chris Smither found his live gigs shut down during the worst months of COVID-19, he figured it might at least be a good opportunity to write some new songs — something the veteran folk/blues singer and guitarist admits is not the...
