Stagestruck: Movie/Theater Face-Off
In “The Flick,” at the Academy of Music this weekend, the usual roles are reversed. The audience is on the stage and the play is in the seats. Which makes sense: it’s set in an empty movie theater.
Cinemadope: The Age of Activism
This week, we are lucky enough to get the chance to turn back the clock a few years to catch a glimpse of Crowe doing what she did best.
Podcast: Steve Pfarrer discusses historical fiction writers of the Valley
What makes good historical fiction?
V-Spot: I Can’t Stop Masturbating to My Toxic Ex
No matter your masturbatory media’s subject matter, my advice for bucking the habit is the same: can you figure out what it is about him and these pictures and videos that turns your crank so hard?
Free Will Astrology: Free yourself like Conan O’Brien, Aries
I hope you’ll be inspired by Conan O’Brien’s example in the coming weeks, Aries.
Letters to the Editor: ‘We all know how that goes’
Self-driving cars is a stupid technology. It assumes computers will always function well. We all know how that goes…
Snowhaus on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Snowhaus plays party punk and shredding emo pop.
Bizarro Briefs Podcast: A hellish marriage proposal, a belligerent pig on live TV, and an epic use of a narwhal tusk
This week in weird news, in audio form.
Staff Picks: Mad Habits, Rosie Porter, Crooked Still, and a Short Film Festival
This Sunday at Majestic Saloon in Northampton will feature the musical stylings of progressive folk quartet Mad Habits.
Monte Belmonte Wines: My Christmas Wine Wish List For Santa
Dear Santa, It has been one year since my last confession. I have been a fair to moderately good boy. There has only been the occasional quid pro quo. And even when wine companies have shipped me free wine, I have been unafraid to damn them with faint praise in this...
An imaginative trip through history: Valley historical novelists talk about their craft
“I like to try to recreate those worlds with my own ideas and imagine how people interacted, how life might have felt and sounded.”
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Local Calendar: Tuesday 7/31 & 8/1
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Strapping Young Lads!
At the sex toy store I worked at, it wasn't uncommon for men to walk in, look around at the vibrators, harnesses and dildos and ask, "What's in this for me and my penis? How do we get off around here?" The obvious answers are masturbation sleeves (see "Penis...
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Cinemadope: Getting schooled on schools – A Backpack Full of Cash
The documentary puts forth that charter schools are not inherently better than public schools, and in some cases are demonstrably worse.











