by Advocate Staff | Aug 22, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Music
The Mary Jane Jones at Theodore’s // THURSDAY Vintage-influenced jazzy soul band The Mary Jane Jones returns to Springfield’s iconic blues club, Theodore’s, this Thursday. If you’ve never seen the Mary Jane Jones’ live performance before, now would be the time. The...
by Advocate Staff | Aug 22, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Music, Podcast
Home Body is an electro fever-pop, new wave and experimental pop duo. They recently released their new record, Spiritus, which can be found on their website. For the video version of this performance, go to sessions.valleyadvocate.com. Listen here: You can hear more...
by Chris Goudreau | Aug 21, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News
Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno has defined his 12-plus years as the city’s leader as “the people’s mayor,” but for 19-year-old Trevaughn Smith, that description of Sarno, which can be found on the city’s website, is a “loaded title.” Smith, campaign director for...
by Advocate Staff | Aug 21, 2019 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, Featured, News
The wedding crasher Police in Texas are asking the public for help in finding a thief they are calling “The Wedding Crasher.” The Comal County Sheriff’s Office has described the suspect as arriving uninvited to weddings, posing as a guest and then stealing gifts,...
by Chris Goudreau | Aug 21, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News
Town Meeting voters in Longmeadow overwhelmingly approved a change to to the town’s zoning bylaws Tuesday, which would prohibit a proposed Tennessee Gas Company meter station project in a residentially zoned neighborhood at the Longmeadow Country Club. More than 125...
by Dusty Christensen | Aug 20, 2019 | Articles, Clueless Parent, Columns, Featured
I hate every activity I have to do pre-coffee. I’m admittedly a bit of a grump before I’ve had my morning caffeine bump, so when an egg flew through the air and smashed on the kitchen floor on a recent morning, I wasn’t amused. My 21-month-old daughter — my beloved...
by Jennifer Levesque | Aug 20, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Valley Show Girl
RPM Fest, the largest camp-out metal music festival in New England and something that many people in the Valley look forward to each year, is back and coming up quick. Friday, August 30, through Sunday, September 1, are jam-packed with over 50 bands spreading out...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 20, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
It wasn’t intentional, but thinking back on the programs I’ve seen at Jacob’s Pillow this summer, and forward to one that’s on this week, I realized that every concert on my dance card this year is by African-American-led companies. Unintentional, perhaps, but not...
by Advocate Staff | Aug 19, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News, Podcast
Lauren Simonds returns to the Valley Advocate podcast to talk about the challenges small businesses face now that big companies have become operational in the Massachusetts cannabis market. Read her full article here. Listen: You can hear more of the Valley Advocate’s...
by Jack Brown | Aug 19, 2019 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured
I could hardly have imagined, back when I was a gangly middle schooler, how far into my adulthood one of my favorite stories would reach. But here it is some three-plus decades later, and it seems that every year there is some new tale that bears the influence of...
