by Advocate Staff | May 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing,” writes Jane Hirshfield in her poem “Everything Has Two Endings.” This observation is apropos for you right now. There are potentially important messages you’re...
by Advocate Staff | May 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
This past week felt more like December than March. Meteorologists will no doubt have a lame explanation for this, but I know it’s really the witch Louhi causing this mayhem. Check out The Day the Earth Froze and see if you agree.This 1959 film from Russia and Finland...
by Peter Vancini | Apr 25, 2016 | Articles, Arts, News
When Melissa Lewis-Gentry walks into a comic book store, it’s not to shop for her boyfriend or her dad. Still, she’s sometimes received that way, despite being the manager of a comic book store herself.Once regarded exclusively as the fodder of wide-eyed grade-school...
by Hunter Styles | Apr 25, 2016 | Articles, Uncategorized
By Hunter Styles Welcome, reader, to Appleseed, Massachusetts. Never heard of it? On page one of his newly-released second novel Golden Delicious, Longmeadow native Christopher Boucher provides an off-kilter lay of this fictional land:“That afternoon I took the...
by Advocate Staff | Apr 25, 2016 | Articles, Uncategorized
Turbine at Bishop’s LoungeNYC-based quintet band Turbine is one funky, rough, finely-tuned act. Full of big, brash rock lines and upbeat, soulful vocals, Turbine’s music is also surprisingly inventive, marked by shaken-up time signatures and unusual song structures....
