Blazing Their Own Trail: Only the 2nd community in the nation to officially commit to reparations for its Black residents, Amherst is in important and unchartered territory
When she was 10 years old, a fourth-grade teacher asked Debora Bridges during a classroom lesson “what it felt like to be a slave” as a “little colored girl.” It happened in 1961. In Amherst. Although her mother and grandmother were able to scrounge up an apology...
Rosie Porter and the Neon Moons on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Rosie Porter and the Neon Moons play classic country and honky-tonk with a sentimental croon.
Letters to the Editor: Responses to ROE
“An excellent and thorough review” vs. “contains several incorrect statements.”
Staff Picks: Saturns Return, Black Refractions, Mary Jane Jones, a dictionary talk for word nerds
Saturns Return: An Immersive Movement Experience // FRIDAY The Root Cellar in Greenfield is hosting an event titled “Saturns Return: An Immersive Movement Experience,” which, according to the Facebook event, includes a hero’s journey, dancing, live music, advice for...
Swimming in drag theater
Queer & Now will be staging two performances of “Sync or Swim” on Friday and Saturday.
A Loaded Topic: Pioneer Valley firearms community is active, but often hidden
Why, exactly, is the gun issue such an issue?
Editorial: Problem gambling data collection is coming too late
… but let’s get the data anyway
Bizarro Briefs: Immigration Policies Make Vultures Puke
This week in weird news.
Monte Belmonte Wines: Trump’s Next Assassination may be the European Wine Market
On Jan. 14, the Trump administration could destroy it all by imposing a 100 percent tariff on European wine.
Cinemadope: Child’s Work
As shown by Shraysi Tandon’s award-winning documentary Invisible Hands, which comes to the Berkshire Museum’s Little Cinema this weekend, some of the world’s biggest corporations are deeply involved in a system that is complicit in exploiting the world’s most vulnerable population — even, as the film shows at one point, literally selling children into forced labor.
Stagestruck on the Road: Witches in Berkeley
With all the talk of “witch hunts” flying around these days, it probably wasn’t quite a coincidence that two shows I saw recently in Berkeley, Calif., are on that very topic. Not the trumped-up political kind of witch hunt, though, but real ones born of historical...
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Riley Godleski on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Riley Godleski is a local singer-songwriter who perfroms indie pop mixed with bittersweet melodies and melancholy alternative folk.
Spring Flings
Today I went to the Bulb Show at Smith College's greenhouse. Maybe it was the sticky humidity, the intoxicating floral scent, or the suggestive cacti towering next to the quivering folds of pink orchids, but it was the first time in quite a while that I've felt hot...
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Stagestruck Abroad: Two plays in London show theater’s unique power
Yes, theater in a refugee camp — not a do-gooder frill, but proof of the necessity for art to lift the spirit and sustain hope.
