by Advocate Staff | Jun 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Mutton, HoneyIf you’ve ever wanted to see someone get clubbed in the head with a mace live! then you need to get over to the Mutton and Mead Festival, a full-contact kind of fair.The long-running Middle Ages fest features jousting; “Circque De Sewer,” trained rats and...
by Advocate Staff | Jun 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
WTF, Bird ?Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece on creativity and family, the destructive power of love and indifference, The Seagull, gets a comedic, modern reboot in Aaron Posner’s Stupid Fucking Bird, which is being performed now by the Silverthorne Theater Co. Both plays...
by Advocate Staff | Jun 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Dragons on the WaterSpringfield will play host to a competition of dragons on Saturday — the boat kind, not the flying around torching villages variety. The annual Springfield Dragon Boat Festival will be held at the North Riverfront Park, 121 West St., in...
by Advocate Staff | Jun 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
THURSDAY MUSICAlex Tuohey: 6-9:30 p.m. Classic rock. Free. Luxe Burger Bar, 1200 West Columbus Ave., Springfield. (413) 785-5893. steve@luxeburgerbar.com.Ari and Mia with Lula Wiles: 7:30-10 p.m. Dewey Memorial Hall, 91 Main St., Sheffield.Belle of the Fall: 8:45-10...
by Advocate Staff | Jun 19, 2017 | Articles, Basemental, Columns, Music, Newsletter
Some might describe The Leafies You Gave Me as a “band,” but that would be an understatement. At least in the musical sense. Yes, they are musicians. And yes, they make music. But they are a band more like New Oxford American Dictionary’s second definition of the word...
