by Advocate Staff | Oct 17, 2016 | Articles, Food + Booze, Leisure, News, Newsletter
Game by Kristin Palpini, Kyle Olsen, Jennifer Levesque, and Hunter Styles In celebration of the Annual Manual — a condensed version of the Advocate’s yearly Best of the Valley Readers’ Poll — we’ve created a board game featuring some of the Best Of...
by Advocate Staff | Oct 17, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Music, Newsletter
Halloween Thrash Bash 3 • Friday Maximum Capacity’s 3rd Halloween costume party is among us. Come dressed as anything but yourself! I may be in attendance sporting a blue wig. Drink specials all night and not to mention a killer line-up who may appear on stage in...
by Advocate Staff | Oct 18, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Music
It starts November 2016. And we’re calling it: In partnership with Northampton Community Television and Signature Sounds. Local acts, established and upcoming, in a casual coffeehouse setting. All online, all the time. Keep your eyes peeled… We’ll...
by Advocate Staff | Oct 17, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Music, Newsletter
BLOOMING THROUGH THE BLACK Parsonsfield Signature Sounds Leverett has fewer than 2,000 residents, so it’s kind of a miracle that it has launched a young bluegrass folk band as well-toured and nationally recognized as Parsonsfield. Then again, the cute, quiet town has...
by Chuck Shepherd | Oct 17, 2016 | Articles, News, News of the Weird, Newsletter
John Weigel and Olaf Danielson are engaged in a frenzied battle of “extreme birdwatching,” each hoping to close out 2016 as the new North American champ of the American Birding Association, and a September Smithsonian piece had Weigel ahead, 763 to 759. Danielson is...