Stagestruck: The ‘Art’ of Friendship
I’ve seen Art several times over the years, and what always strikes me is that it’s a play about men acting like women. And therein lies the crux of the play – and the problem with this production.
Bizarro Briefs Podcast: A really scary house, a cautionary tale for hit men, Elf on a Shelf cereal
Weird (and spooky) news of the week.
Podcast: Chris Goudreau on young activists in the Valley
Causes covered include gun control, homeless rights advocacy, and climate change.
Valley Show Girl: Queer Punk Drag Night Take 5
The 5th Queer Punk Drag night is just a week-ish away and it’s the biggest one yet says Tanya Pearson, the curator of these unique shows. I went to the first show back in February and it was one of the most satisfying shows I’ve been to in a while. “For me,” Pearson...
Cinemadope: Trick and Treat – The strange horrors of House
The film — fueled by the director’s habit of taking notes from his 10-year old daughter — went off in its own direction that would prove to be wonderfully, disturbingly absurd.
V-Spot: Working on your strap-on skills
This question is obviously kind of difficult to Google, which is why I’m writing in!
Free Will Astrology: What the stars say you should be for Halloween
Libra should be a bilingual Jewish Santa Claus.
Hivebane on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Hivebane is an acoustic hard rock trio from Springfield, MA, with soaring vocal harmonies
Poetry: Once When We Were Crippled
And two other poems.
Sessions Podcast: Anders Warringer
Eclectic acoustic originals with a side of absurdity.
Staff picks: LuxDeluxe, Crowdsourced Cinema, Elizabeth Cook, and Climate Change Theatre Action
Get out there and do stuff.
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Valley Show Girl: Rock Like It’s 1794
For my last column, I wrote about The Stone Church in Vermont, a church renovated into a performance venue. What are the chances I happen to find another one of those without knowing it until I show up? Well, I did. Enter the 1794 Meetinghouse in the center of the...
Don't Be OKStupid
I recently responded to a Craigslist ad seeking administrative help in a home office. You can already see where this is headed, I'm sure. I'm considered a bit of a pro at sexual innuendo myself, and I'm rarely duped. Call me old-fashioned, but when I read an ad that...
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Stagestruck: The Fruits of Poetry
Note: An earlier version of this article contained several errors. They have now been corrected. 1999, Time magazine named its pick for “the song of the century.” That song was “Strange Fruit,” perhaps an odd choice from the songbook of the era...
