Back from the Edge – Gateway City Arts almost died last year. Now it’s being reborn.
The 19th-century mill building on Holyoke’s Race Street that’s now home to Gateway City Arts almost died last year, a victim of the pandemic. But it’s now coming back to life. And for artist and co-owner Vitek Kruta, the whole building has become his canvas.
Staff Picks: Leafies, Lucy Wainwright Roche, farm stories, and Kimaya Diggs
They are poised to release their first album, Off Off Off Broadway, this weekend on the Flex Stage at 33 Hawley St. in Northampton.
Monte Belmonte Wines: Trying to Love Italian Wine
Excuse me as I open this bottle of Givry from Burgundy in France and contemplate my identity crisis.
Bizarro Briefs Podcast: Dung made into booze, a terrible anti-meth campaign, and a 43-year-old Twinkie
Weird news of the week, in audio form.
The Return Trip: Psychedelics may come back from the abyss of illegality
LSD, psilocybin (found in certain mushroom species), and mescaline (from the peyote cactus) are undergoing a resurgence being described as a renaissance.
Editorial: Use your billions on something other than running for president
Unfortunately, as Steyer has shown, someone with deep financial resources is able to game the system.
Cinemadope: Hit Parade
The mob movie is the shadowy reflection of the American Dream.
Best Mann’s Debut Album is a Layered Tower of Sound
Thematically it’s a rich vein to mine and a damn good debut for Best Mann.
Stagestruck: Eye of the Storm
Nilaja Sun is, quite simply, the most exciting solo performer I’ve ever seen. She’s a small, wiry woman whose expansive presence fills a stage. Drawing on an astonishing talent for physical and vocal mimicry, her pieces are fully formed plays that bring to life a multitude of vibrant, funny, flawed human beings. She’s bringing her latest, Pike St., to the Academy of Music.
Podcast: Javier Luengo-Garrido of ACLU Massachusetts on Greenfield’s Safe City vote
Massachusetts is behind other states in immigrant rights.
The V-Spot: Am I Only Bisexual When I’m Drunk?
When I’m drunk I’m down for anything!
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House Sparrow on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
House Sparrow is an indie pop duo from the Berkshires that combines sleigh-bells and synth
Treats for Tricks
As the great pre-rehab, pre-celesbian Lindsay Lohan once recited in my favorite guilty pleasure movie: "Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it." If you happened to be lucky enough to catch...
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Stagestruck: In the Not-So-Bleak Midwinter
This weekend, two Valley performances fit the month’s theme, one a historical portrait, the other a raw look at contemporary identity.
