by Steve Pfarrer | Apr 30, 2020 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Music, News
Kris Delmhorst, holding an acoustic guitar in her lap, wore a hopeful smile as she sat recently in a room in her Shelburne Falls home and stared into a video camera. “I’m here,” she said. “Are you here? I think we’re here together, people … thank you for coming.” Like...
by Steve Pfarrer | Apr 30, 2020 | Articles, Featured, News
As deadly as it has been, COVID-19 doesn’t have the historical track record of what has consistently been America’s second leading cause of death: cancer. Yet the novel coronavirus has certainly made matters more difficult for people struggling with cancer and for...
by Steve Pfarrer | Apr 9, 2020 | Articles, Featured, News
Andrea Hairston was already a pretty serious bike commuter, riding through most kinds of weather to her teaching job at Smith College, when she had an encounter several years ago with the late Frances Crowe of Northampton. It was a cold winter day, with snow coming...
by Advocate Staff | Apr 3, 2020 | Advocate Sessions, Articles, Featured, Music
This week’s Advocate Sessions performer is singer-songwriter JJ Slater, who writes original music that blends together folk-rock and psychedelic pop with jazzy chord progressions. Interview with JJ Slater:
by Advocate Staff | Mar 26, 2020 | Best Of 2020 Winners, Get Physical
Northampton Country Club Best Golf course For Chrissy Casagrande, the secret to the Northampton Country Club ’s success is being lucky to be surrounded by people who support them. In addition to maintaining what voters consider the best golf course in the Valley, the...