by Advocate Staff | May 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
Blues Man GroupAs troubled and shell-shocked as Detroit is today, the city has long been a centrifuge for America’s grandest dreams. It was on these streets, and in legendary music halls and coffeehouses like the Chessmate on Livernois Avenue, that a young James...
by Advocate Staff | May 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
In Our ElementsTwo artists exhibiting at Gallery A3 in Amherst this month explore color, nature, and the human spirit. Rochelle Shicoff’s work in mixed media focuses mainly on people, offering creative and often whimsical experiments in melding the human figure with...
by Advocate Staff | May 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
Admirable NelsonsLatvian conductor Andris Nelsons is something of a New Englander now, having settled in as the music director of the Boston Symphont Orchestra, but his background is as international as one would expect: born in Riga, trained in St. Petersburg and...
by Advocate Staff | May 9, 2016 | Articles, Astrology, Wellness
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Russian writer Anton Chekhov was renowned for the crisp, succinct style of his short stories and plays. As he evolved, his pithiness grew. “I now have a mania for shortness,” he wrote. “Whatever I read — my own work, or...
by Advocate Staff | May 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
Thursday 5/12Adult Community Education — Evening Workshops: May 12 and 16-18, 4 p.m. Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School, 80 Locust St., Northampton. (413) 587-1414, ext. 3530; ltiley@smithtec.org; SmithACE.org.Amherst Tree Dedication and Talk: 4 p.m....
