Stagestruck: Pillow in Motion
The evening unwraps slowly in a flowing sequence of encounters – tentative, teasing, edgy and sexy – as the dancers circle and entwine. They highlight “the beauty in our [Black] culture, the way we love and love on each other.”
Bizarro Briefs Podcast: A burglar’s Christmas surprise, a bald eagle vs. an octopus, and the Valley’s best public bathrooms
This week in weird news … in audio form.
Bizarro Briefs: In the Socks of Fox
If you ever watch the Fox network and think — are these guys on something? — turns out some of them likely are.
Clueless Parent: My years-long struggle, and solution, to my son’s bed wetting
But one miraculous day, we went to a specialist for a completely different situation with my son.
Valley Show Girl: Don’t Forget to Water Your Leafies
According to their Bandcamp bio, their live shows have been referred to as “Broadway on acid.” I don’t disagree.
The V-Spot: How To Kiss With Consent
As with sex in general, with kissing, too, the Traditional Mood as staged by movies, mainstream, porn, social expectations, and the folklore of gossip actually does many of us a disservice in the consent department.
Cinemadope: Adam Sandler gets serious
Sandler has regularly found critical acclaim in more dramatic roles. His latest seems poised to finally bring him more mainstream notice: the movie is Uncut Gems.
Free Will Astrology: Mix and blend like Drake, Scorpio
Among his many accomplishments, Scorpio rapper Drake is an inventive rhymer.
Brown Bones on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Brown Bones performs soulful and intimate urban folk with poignant lyrics and heartfelt melodies.
Letters to the Editor: Put the Ha back in Hanukah
“However you spell it, I’m talking about the “war” on Hanukah.”
Staff Picks: The Frost Heaves and Hales, homelessness films, Parasite at Amherst Cinema, Winter Solstice Celebration
At the same event is the release of Advocate Sessions alumni The Frost Heaves and Hales’ new album “Repointing The Steeple.”
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The Frost Heaves and Hales on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Psych folk duo with one-minute songs about birds, cats, and dogs.
Strap-Happy
The perfect harness to your favorite dildo is like sunshine to your picnic, chocolate chips to your cookie, gel-based lube to your... you get the idea. Time to learn the ropes (well, straps) of harness buying. Do you only knock the vegan boots or would you rather ride...
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Cinemadope: The kaleidoscopic philosophy of jazz percussionist Milford Graves
So few of us follow our deepest drives — it’s a path that leads along high wires and narrow ledges, and for many, the fear of failing big keeps us dreaming small. On the other end of human experience is a man like Milford Graves.











