by Advocate Staff | May 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
A Stitch in TimeThe Amherst Historical Society and Museum houses art, tools, and bits of local domestic history dating back three centuries. The nine women who make up the group Fiber Artists of Western Mass have taken the museum’s stock as inspiration for a new...
by Compiled by Kristin Palpini | May 3, 2016 | Articles, Leisure, Wellness
We couldn’t write about all the local races on the horizon this running season, but the following list is a head-start on where to get your legs pumping.For more information, visit the online event calendars at Runner’s World, the Western Mass Athletic Club, the...
by Advocate Staff | May 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
An Electoral CollageThe politically radical Bread and Puppet Theater, founded in NYC in the ’60s and based in northern Vermont since the ’70s, tours wonderful, whimsical shows with a knack for getting to the heart of big issues sideways. Their new giant puppet show,...
by By Amanda Drane | May 3, 2016 | Articles, Third Eye Roaming
Michelle Ryan says she didn’t truly know yoga until she knew chronic pain. And that’s not because Ryan, founder of Ashtanga Yoga Northampton, hadn’t done yoga before — she’d done it for over 15 years — but because it took working around the spasms to show her the...
by By Kristin Palpini | May 3, 2016 | Articles, Wellness
Marathon runner and tri-athlete Chris Trotta started running because a guy at work wouldn’t shut up about doing the New York City Marathon. “He just kept talking about it and talking about it,” says Trotta a Longmeadow father of three. “Finally, he said, ‘I bet you...
