Stagestruck: Small Disasters
Anna Ouyang Moench’s “Birds of North America,” at Chester Theatre Company, is the kind of piece in which Chester specializes and excels – small, subtle dramas that pull you in and make you think. It’s about climate change, but doesn’t hammer the theme. It’s more metaphor than polemic, more quiet anguish than loud confrontation.
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.”
Cinemadope: Holly Daze
You may or may not have heard, but this thing called Christmas is happening on Wednesday. Turns out it’s kind of a big deal, and while a lot of the movie-going crowd will be busy elsewhere on the 25th, local cinemas are getting in the spirit in the days leading up to...
Ranked-choice voting gaining speed in Massachusetts
“Let your preferences truly be known without having to resort to the kind of strategic voting that we tend to have to do now.”
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Pick of the Day 8/10:Colorway at Luxe Burger Bar in Springfield
Colorway is awesome. They blew us away during their Advocate Sessions performance and I’ve gotten to see them here and there since then. Here’s a chance to catch them at a no cover, all ages show in Springfield. Luxe Burger Bar, 1200 West Columbus Ave., Springfield....
Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Vibrator?
Once upon a time, in a big bed far away, there was a princess who wanted to use a sex toy with her partner. But when she broached the subject, all her partners feared that they would be replaced by a sex toy! The first little partner said, "If you want me to fuck you...
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Stagestruck: Post-Apocalyptic Foolery
The scene: desolation. The time: the aftermath of a cataclysm that has destroyed civilization and left only industrial scaffolding and piles of junk.
