Theater Matters with Jarice Hanson: Springing onto the stage and into summer
Editor’s note: The Advocate is pleased to introduce a new theater writer. Jarice Hanson was a professor in the Department of Communication at UMass Amherst, and has been active in theater in the Valley and beyond for over 30 years. She’s a member of AEA, the...
Coronavirus under the Microscope: Western Mass hospitals, municipalities, and individuals prepare for a possible outbreak
Here in Massachusetts and, more locally, in the Pioneer Valley, local hospitals and municipalities are working to prepare and plan for a potential outbreak of the new respiratory viral strain for which there is currently no vaccine or antiviral treatment.
Valley Show Girl: Experimental Noise Fixations
This Friday, Ten Forward will host a night of femme/queer bands with a bonus album release from one of the newest punk bands from Western Mass, Nemesister.
Editorial: Preserving community amid a communicable disease
Disease is something to take seriously.
Stagestruck: One-Pitch Wonder
In baseball parlance, having “a cup of coffee” refers to a player who is called up from the minors for a brief stint with the major-league team – staying just long enough to have a figurative cuppa. Stan Freeman’s The Pitch is about a fictional ballplayer who barely...
The V-Spot: Can My Clit Learn to Trust Again?
If we can relate a sneeze to an orgasm in the ways they hijack our bodies in an involuntary release, I can’t point to many people who can sneeze on command whilst their partner stares at them in excited anticipation of the big kerchoo and your orgasm isn’t much different.
Brian Dickens on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
This week’s Advocate Sessions performer is Americana/ folk singer-songwriter Brian Dickens who brings a contemporary feel to classic folk inspired songs.
Local drone pilots organize national protest against FAA rule changes, citing privacy and expense concerns
A local man concerned about new rules proposed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) affecting drone pilots is organizing a national protest in Washington, D.C., this weekend. Michael Duhl of Deerfield is the head organizer of “Help Save Our Hobby,” which will...
Staff Picks: Celseigh’s album release, ‘Peter and the Starcatcher,’ Bernie Sanders, and DREAM Project
Things to do this week.
Stagestruck: Plain Jane
Jane Eyre may be the most-adapted of 19th-century English novels, with dozens of film and TV renditions. But stage versions can do something the book does that screen versions don’t. Charlotte Bronte’s narrative is in the voice of Jane herself, and so is the play now at Hartford Stage.
Spring Arts Preview 2020
Spring is in the air. Sort of. In some ways, after a snowy start, it has felt that winter didn’t come at all. But with clocks about to change to Daylight Savings (on Sunday, March 8!) it’s time to come out of our shells and check out a good show or museum.
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OroborO on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
OroborO combines experimenatal rock with punk, metal, and mathy riffs.
The V-Spot: At The End of My (Long-Distance) Rope
Hello Yana, I’ve been seeing a great guy for almost a year now who lives one and a half hours away. We’ve seen each other less than 15 times in the past year and I do 90 percent of the driving. We talk all the time through texts, but almost every weekend we make plans...
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Cinemadope: First Blood – a director sets his direction
Seven years before Suspiria made him an international star, Argento made his mark in his native Italy with The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, a murder mystery that established the Argento style early on.
