by From Our Readers | Dec 6, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Letters from our Readers
‘We all know how that goes’ In response to “Between the Lines: Automation without oversight has deadly consequences,” published Nov. 28 – Dec. 4, 2019. Self-driving cars is a stupid technology. It assumes computers will always function well. We all know how that...
by Advocate Staff | Dec 6, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Music, Valley Advocate Sessions
Snowhaus plays party punk and shredding emo pop. Check out the band’s Advocate Sessions performance in the video below. Interview with Snowhaus:
by Advocate Staff | Dec 5, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Podcast
Valley Advocate editor Dave Eisenstadter and Hits 94.3 host Trumpy talk about the week’s weird news in a podcast version of the Valley Advocate’s Bizarro Briefs section. Hear about a hellish marriage proposal, a belligerent pig on live TV, and an epic use of a narwhal...
by Advocate Staff | Dec 5, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Music, Staff Picks
Mad Habits, Ananda Luna, and The Hanged Man at Majestic Saloon // SUNDAY This Sunday at Majestic Saloon in Northampton will feature the musical stylings of progressive folk quartet Mad Habits, experimental and world fusion artist Ananda Luna as well as Bella’s Bartok...
by Monte Belmonte | Dec 5, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Monte Belmonte Wines
Dear Santa, It has been one year since my last confession. I have been a fair to moderately good boy. There has only been the occasional quid pro quo. And even when wine companies have shipped me free wine, I have been unafraid to damn them with faint praise in this...
by Steve Pfarrer | Dec 4, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Featured, News
Time travel has been a perennial theme for fiction writers for over 200 years, as well as a theme from ancient myths, dating back far longer, from countries all over the world. It’s also an idea — or at least the notion of moving into the future is — that’s been...
by Dave Eisenstadter | Dec 4, 2019 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News
It was as recently as October when I used this space to observe the two-year anniversary of Lucio Perez taking sanctuary in the First Congregational Church in Amherst. A resident of the Valley for nearly 20 years, Perez is married and has three children who are U.S....
by Luis Fieldman | Dec 3, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Wellness
When Lynette Bloise would tell her husband, “It’s happening,” he knew exactly what that meant: a trip to the emergency room. Before May 2018, Bloise would have cardiac episodes stemming from conditions that caused her heart to suddenly beat erratically, alternating...
by Advocate Staff | Dec 3, 2019 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, Featured
Next stop, The Matrix Farmers in Moscow are now experimenting with virtual reality headsets to help improve milk production among cows. The thought is by rigging a VR headset on cows that simulate tranquil experiences, it will create a calmer atmosphere for the cattle...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 3, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Last week I previewed some area productions of those holiday stalwarts A Christmas Carol and The Nutcracker. But it’s not all ghosts and sugarplums this Yuletide. Here are some alternatives for your seasonal theatergoing, tracking north to south, then making a curve...
