‘Social equity’ applicants making inroads, gradually, in cannabis business
The first time lifelong Holyoke resident Damaris Aponte sold marijuana, she was 14 and growing up in a city deeply impacted by the so-called war on drugs. She saw many people she knew get arrested on drug charges, and her own brother was killed in the city’s...
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...
Podcast: Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa on the ROE Act and expansion of abortion rights
Northampton state Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa talks about the legislation, what it does, and how likely it might be to pass during this session.
V Spot: How Long Do I Stay in My Marriage?
“I’ve recently come to terms with the fact that I don’t want to be in my marriage anymore.”
Free Will Astrology: Be tenacious like Balzac, Taurus
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Comedian John Cleese has an insight I hope you’ll consider. He says, “It’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent. It’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to...
Steve Rodgers on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Steve Rodgers is a singer-songwriter who plays Americana and indie folk with a dash of rock ‘n’ roll.
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Basemental: The swampy grunge anthems of Owen Manure
Manure’s swampy, grunge anthems recall a different time: when grunge was king, punk was fun, and I was probably barely a baby.
Hippity, Humpity, Hop!
No one made putting a cute little bunny on your clitoris look better than my favorite promiscuous cougar Samantha from HBO's series Sex and The City. This fictional femme fatale and her overacted orgasms made the original Rabbit Pearl and Rabbit Habit vibrators by...
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Cinemadope: The Theme Song’s the Thing in Mission: Impossible
Me? I just want to hear that music one more time.
