It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood: Easthampton joins national movement with inaugural Porchfest throughout New City neighborhood, Sept. 30
By MADDIE FABIAN Staff Writer As many Easthampton residents do, Marjory Zaik has deep ties to the historic New City Neighborhood. A 1930s family photograph pictures her aunts Stella and Helen laughing while cheerfully leaning against the rail of their Federal Street...
Biking in the Valley: Even with COVID-19, bicycling is the way to go for many
With spring having arrived, bicyclists are again hitting the road in increasing numbers, even as the COVID-19 outbreak has thrown new wrinkles into the situation. Some bike commuters, like physical therapist Jessica Goldberg of Florence, are not going to work as frequently or at all.
Correcting The Record: You Should Wear Masks
Now firmly in the second month of intense disruption caused by the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, it's getting clearer to see that information is among our most highly prized assets as we continue to shelter in place and undertake other efforts to flatten the curve....
The Beerhunter: Local Breweries Adapt to a New, Locked-Down World
This article was supposed to be about gathering in large groups.
Valley Show Girl: The Valley Needs Doc Westchesterson
“The World Needs A Doctor” is a theme song for COVID-19. The video shows Doc in quarantine, playing Scrabble, smoking weed, playing music with a pyramid of toilet paper shown in the background, practicing yoga and meditating.
Cinemadope: Alone Together
I’ve been looking at web cams, live concerts, and online art classes, and while it might sound mawkish, these — along with some inspired ideas collected from like-minded friends — are a few of the things that have helped me feel like I’m still connected to the world, and to all of you in it. Here are a few of the streams I’ve been dipping into lately.
The V-Spot: Five Months of Sexual Unfulfillment
First, allow me to validate your feeling that your climax and needs are not important to your partner because from what I’m reading from you here, it certainly seems like they are not.
JJ Slater on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
This week’s Advocate Sessions performer is singer-songwriter JJ Slater, who writes original music that blends together folk-rock and psychedelic pop with jazzy chord progressions.
Educators rising to remote learning challenges
In the meantime, local educators in the Pioneer Valley are interacting remotely with students on a daily basis and are concerned about issues such as equitable access to technology for students and how the pandemic will impact their schools in the future.
We needed unemployment reform years ago, and there’s a crisis now
This is a crisis that our unemployment system is ill equipped to handle.
Fred Cracklin’s ‘Anxiety Kinship’ — A Mad Science Experiment Gone Right
Anxiety Kinship is a mad science experiment of an album that creates its Frankenstein’s monster with equal parts horror, humor, and humanity.
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Ed Bentley on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Ed Bentley performs open mic-honed folk music with a sweet crooner voice.
The V-Spot: Can I Ask my GF to Stop Using Her Vibrator?
Hi Yana, With previous girlfriends it’s been easier over time to bring them to orgasm as I get to know their preferences and bodies, however my current girlfriend owns a Hitachi Magic Wand that she has been using for nine months. It’s significantly more difficult now...
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Cinemadope: Holmes Sweet Holmes
Instead, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly follow up on their Step Brothers routine in the guise of Holmes and Watson; Fiennes is on board as Holmes’ nemesis Professor Moriarty in this new comedy from writer/director Etan Cohen (Get Hard).
