Stagestruck: Coming Back to Live – Theaters took to the stage again this year, cautiously and creatively
After the spring, summer, fall and winter of our discontent — not to mention fear, frustration and isolation — this year area theaters tentatively, and often inventively, stepped onstage again. The sense of determination by performers and audiences alike to get back to live-in-person was unmistakable, along with the sheer joy of being back together.
Bizarro Briefs Podcast: An intruder beaten up by an 82-year-old woman, brother sister bonding, and illegal bologna
Weird news of the week, in audio form.
Winter Arts Preview 2019-2020
Here’s a collection of events to check out over the coming months, compiled by your humble Valley Advocate staff. Enjoy!
Editorial: Automation without oversight has deadly consequences
A report on last year’s fatal self-driving car crash is damning to Uber and to the way we approach new technology.
Eric Cunha’s Psychic Pica is ‘80s Synth Pop in the Year 2019
I hear hints of notes that could have easily been part of a Pink Floyd or Talking Heads track.
Bizarro Briefs: Would-be burglar beaten up by 82-year-old woman
… and other weird news of the week.
Clueless Parent: I’m a bad singer, but my toddler doesn’t mind
Being forced out of my comfort zone has made me less shy about singing in public, too.
Cinemadope: A Garden Party – Franklin County gets busy
If you’re out and about in Franklin County this weekend, you might want to make some room in your Saturday calendar.
Stagestruck: Holiday Stages, Part One – Evergreens
The second and third most-often retold Christmas stories – the one about Scrooge and the one about the nutcracker – get workouts trad and twisted on area stages this season. (Number One, of course, is is the one about Jesus.)
Podcast: Peter Stilla speaks about psychedelics and legalization
Will mushrooms and LSD soon be legal?
V-Spot: Is Thickness Good?
This really depends on with whom you’re getting down with the thickness.
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Christa Joy on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Christa Joy is a local singer-songwriter who writes bittersweet country folk songs about everyday life and impermanence.
Putting the Spectacular Back in Speculum
The cold speculum, the stirrups, the swabbing—we can all think of better things to spread our legs for than a pelvic exam. But if you actually love your vagina, you'll get them regularly to detect and prevent cervical cancer, infections, STDs and other nasties....
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Stagestruck: Willkommen to “Cabaret”
As I wrote in this space last year, “So much of what we see and create seems newly topical and timely” since the rise of Trump. “Everything is now filtered through a horrifying new prism, taking on fresh meaning and urgency.” A striking example of the “Trump Effect”...











