Stagestruck: Complete Works and Half Life
After two-plus years, the ghost light has been turned off and Ghost Light Theater steps – or rather, runs – back onstage in Holyoke, this weekend and next. And WAM Theatre, the Berkshires’ peripatetic feminist/activist troupe, touches down at Mass MoCA this Sunday...
The Beerhunter: Kismet Brewing Company Prepares to Open in Westfield
Rich and Liz DeSousa, both longtime craft beer enthusiasts, are hard at work on their new business, Kismet Brewing Company.
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...
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Riley Duggan on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Riley Duggan is a poetic folk singer-songwriter with heartfelt melodies.
The Lies Porn Tells Us
Nobody likes a liar. This is probably why many people hate porn—though rare, truthful porn does exist. As I've said before in a past column ("Feminist Porn," May 5, 2011), there is good, positive porn to be had. You just have to know how to sift through the...
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Stagestruck: Defying Gravity, Again
That wizard of wise foolery known as Avner the Eccentric is back. Avner Eisenberg is a genius of physical comedy and quick-witted clowning whose whimsical website states that “as a kid his passions were snakes and juggling. He wanted to be a doctor, but after a year...











