The solar divide
When it’s right in front of you, like the nine decaying cherry trees on Northampton’s Warfield Place that the city of Northampton recently removed in order to rebuild the road and sidewalk, residents lose their minds. Some likened the tree-cutting “violence” to napalm...
Free Will Astrology: Are you ready to be transformed by love, Leo?
The Season of Love is coming.
Sam Crocker on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Sam Crocker is a teen songwriter from Bernardston who plays introspective acoustic indie folk rock.
Bizarro Brief Podcast: Turkey attacks in New Jersey, a mac-and-cheese turkey recipe, a gender reveal gone wrong
A week of weird news, in podcast form.
Letters to the Editor: What you can do about the climate crisis
The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act is the best hope for stopping carbon pollution.
Podcast: Bassist Avery Sharpe talks about his piece ‘400’
He and his band will perform the piece at UMass later this month.
Staff Picks: Ona Canoa, Zoë Darrow, Mandolin Orange, (Sandy) Alex G
Advocate Sessions alumni and folk trio Ona Canoa will be releasing their first record this Saturday, a debut extended play (EP) titled “Good Dream.”
Valley Show Girl: Connecting the Living with the Dead
Shyu is a multilingual vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and has a background in ballet.
Greenfield is now a ‘safe city’: What’s next for the sanctuary movement?
In Massachusetts, some lawmakers are attempting to pass legislation that would prevent state officials from inquiring about residents’ immigration status in non-criminal matters.
Editorial: Battling ALS, David Kaynor continues to inspire
Kaynor’s is a rare achievement — to master both calling and playing, and be known across the country for both.
Bizarro Briefs: Thanksgiving revolt
Wild turkeys in a New Jersey town are counterattacking.
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Pick of the Day 7/10: Whisper and Shout at Amherst Cinema
A documentary that explores the East German rock music scene in the late 1980s.
Orgy Etiquette, Part 1: Attending
I've never participated in an orgy—unless you count that time at boarding school, which is a story to be told in a newspaper not religiously read by my parents, who paid big bucks for said education (thanks, Mom and Dad!). Being an orgy virgin, I was keen to...
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Cinemadope: Alone/Together
For the unfamiliar, Tarkovsky’s sci-fi is not the sci-fi of Star Wars or Star Trek — the long, often drab journey is definitely more Soviet than space cadet — but it is strange and beautiful in a way that all the best sci-fi is, making us think more about ourselves than any invented oddity.
