Stagestruck: Two Great Ladies on Noah’s Ark
My partner, a literature professor, has noted a principle in both scholarship and fiction that she calls the Noah’s Ark Approach: If you want to get attention for your female subject, pair her with a famous man. Two new plays in Berkshire theaters illustrate that rule.
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.
Bizarro Briefs Podcast: What’s your dying wish?
Weird news of the week, in audio.
Youth activists in the Valley make their voices heard
Youth activists are as present as ever.
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Mamma’s Marmalade on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Mamma’s Marmalade is a jammy bluegrass group with old timey cheer
Bottoms Up!
Being a good bottom is like having someone very important over for dinner. You want to cook them whatever they like. Everything must be perfect, not just to please them, but to please you, too. Being a good bottom isn't just about lazily "taking it." It's about...
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Cinemadope: A Fan Steps into the Spotlight in “Good Ol’ Freda”
In Ryan White’s engaging documentary “Good Ol’ Freda,” showing this Friday and Saturday at Pothole Pictures in Shelburne Falls, the woman who helped build and burnish the Beatles’ image finally gets her due.











