Monte Belmonte Wines: Not quite wine country: Tasting notes from a trip to Córdoba, Spain
By Monte Belmonte For the Valley Advocate As a self-proclaimed wine snob, I admit that it is shameful that I have never been to any “wine country,” in any country, anywhere. Since grapes can grow in virtually every country, meaning wine could be made in virtually...
On a mission: Nayana LaFond’s portraits bring attention to the violence many Indigenous women face
Just under a couple years ago, Nayana LaFond, like so much of the world, was stuck at home, sheltering from COVID-19. The Athol artist, who until that point had mostly been a semi-abstract painter, was looking both to keep busy and maybe take on a new project. In...
Illegal grow operations may be ‘tip of the iceberg’ in western Mass.
When police raided a house at 276 Amherst St. in Granby earlier this year, they described finding an “elaborate” marijuana grow operation with nearly 1,400 plants, an extensive lighting system for six grow rooms and a packaging operation. The person they arrested,...
With warehouse delivery service, Easthampton’s Budzee aims to become the Amazon of weed
Seen from the road, the commercial warehouse at 17 East St. is unassuming. A garage door opens up to a sally port in the front with a drab office building connected to the side. The ambitions of its owners, however, are anything but modest; they want their new...
Monte Belmonte Wines: Chardo-haters Gonna Hate
I was in a certain local fine wine store, eavesdropping on a person who was picking out wines for a home wine tasting. I happened to be standing in front of a selection of Chablis, when I heard them say, “We need some white wines. Anything but Chardonnay!” I blushed...
The V-Spot with Yana Tallon-Hicks: Am I Polysaturated or Polyinfatuated?
Dear Yana, As a polyamorous person who’s having much more success building new connections these days, I worry sometimes that I am dating from a feeling of not enoughness-ness, in a way that keeps me too focused on the new and the possible, and not enough with the...
The Magic of Edibles
Tucked in the back of INSA’s Easthampton headquarters on Pleasant Street is a little slice of heaven. Like any restaurant with great food, the kitchen is where the action is at — and at INSA, it’s a place that combines the sweet smells of chocolate, sugar, and, yes,...
Stagestruck: Live on Screen
National Theatre Live, the series of live-capture high-def performances from the English stage, is back at the Amherst Cinema. Coming up: Philip Pullman’s “La Belle Sauvage,” a rap version “Cyrano” with James McAvoy, and a modern-dress makeover of “Henry V” with Kit Harington.
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Stagestruck: Movie/Theater Face-Off
In “The Flick,” at the Academy of Music this weekend, the usual roles are reversed. The audience is on the stage and the play is in the seats. Which makes sense: it’s set in an empty movie theater.
Keeping Tabs on Pot Purity
The machines inside Analytics Labs seem like futuristic, esoteric devices. Workers in lab coats move around instruments with names like Agilent High-Performance Liquid Chromatography System, performing what seems like complicated science experiments. But the work that...
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Bethany Killian on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Bethany Killian is an indie acoustic folk singer-songwriter with smoky-toned vocals.
The V-Spot: Should I Dump My Triad?
A self-proclaimed “third wheel” wants to know if she’s wasting her time in her open relationship.
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Stagestruck: Child’s Plays
Both of the longstanding children’s theaters that enliven the Valley’s summer schedule tickle the funnybone while feeding the imagination, but they go about it in quite different ways. PaintBox Theatre uses pop-up staging and lots of audience participation, while the Majestic Children’s Theater gives it “the full theatrical treatment.”
