Northampton Councilors Consider Possible Cap on Pot Shops
City councilors have begun to gather public input on the subject of imposing a cap on the number of marijuana dispensaries that are allowed to open in Northampton, including Florence and Leeds, but action on any formal proposal is not yet in sight. The City...
Bizarro Briefs: A Drug Lord’s Zoo
There likely wouldn’t be hippopotamuses living in Columbia if it weren’t for Pablo Escobar.
Staff Picks: Eleanor Levine, Left Hand Backwards, Hellen Fremont, and a movement workshop for tired activists
Left Hand Backwards, Lobotomobile, The Freqs, and Sciencefight at 13th Floor Music Lounge // SATURDAY Palmer-based punk and metal group Left Hand Backwards celebrates its 10th anniversary as a band this Saturday in Florence at the 13th Floor Music Lounge. Joining them...
Cinemadope: Torch Song
Waiting is hard. Some of us skip ahead in our books, others sneak a peek at a bride before the ceremony. Some of us roar past a minivan going a perfectly reasonable 70 mph on 91 South — I’m looking at you, white Honda Civic. There’s just something about getting an...
Valley Show Girl: Sister Act
The duo would easily be seen/heard on the same bill as Ani DiFranco, Regina Spektor, Rasputina and Jewel.
Reading for a cause: Valley Eye Radio volunteers read news for those who can’t read it themselves
As a retiree, Manning noted that Valley Eye Radio’s mission of helping those with disabilities is a continuation of his decades-long work at the Clarke School.
Former Club Castaway manager says she quit following dispute over queer performers
“I worked really hard, so it’s always sad when you have a project that doesn’t go the way you want.”
Amherst Cinema series on new directions in movies gets prestigious grant
Amherst Cinema’s original film series, Bellwether: New Directions in Cinema recently received a $15,000 Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
Editorial: Needless election tech — and the Iowa Caucus — need to go
Monday’s event quickly turned into a nightmare.
Love Letter to a Nightmare
“I secretly believe that I am a goddess with very brief moments of incarnation,” Jennifer Johnson declares, robed in a long white shift, a pair of ram’s horns set on her head. She’s portraying – or perhaps channeling – Leonora Carrington, the free-spirited...
V-Spot: My long-distance partner doesn’t want video chat sex
He might have good reason.
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Scott Meyers on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Scott Meyers is a mellow folk singer-songwriter with heart and soul.
The V-Spot: Halp! I’m Totes Jelly
Dear Yana, My ex-boyfriend of five years cheated on me the whole time we were together. My low self-esteem let him convince me he still loved me despite the cheating. By the end we had opened our relationship to outside sexual partners, but it was mostly him going out...
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Stagestruck: Play by Play by Playwrights
Before a play hits the stage, it goes through several other stages. The first is the opposite of public performance – the writing, solo and in private. Then, for the members of the Northampton Playwrights Lab, it’s shared with a small circle of fellow dramatists, who...











