Stagestruck: A Shaky Shakespeare
Shakespeare & Company’s King Lear, the first show to open on its Lenox campus in a year and a half, marks another return of live theater after the long intermission. It’s also the inaugural production in the troupe’s new outdoor amphitheater, a handsome addition to the company’s stages that brings its history full circle. So it’s especially disappointing to report that this production falls so short of anticipation.
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.
Editorial: Two-year immigrant sanctuary milestone is our shame
Lucio Perez has been forced to live two years in sanctuary at the First Congregational Church in Amherst.
Bizarro Briefs: A joke from beyond the grave … or in it
Weird news this week.
Clueless Parent: Feeling like a humbug on Halloween
Is it wrong just not to do anything?
Cinemadope: Making the Scene
People in the Valley are a creative bunch. At my day job, one woman I work with is a talented seamstress who creates wonderful clothes and stuffed toys; another works with local potters to decorate clay vessels and cups. My old Advocate editor — a published poet —...
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Local Calendar: Thursday 6/21- Sunday 6/24
So much going on this weekend! Take a look!
Get Into Your Birthday Suit
Happy 2nd Birthday to the V-Spot! Thanks to a tiny pink laptop, a couple of dildo-slinging jobs, and of course, you wonderful, sexually curious readers, we've made it through 104 weekly columns together. Thank you, readers! You came, you conquered, you came again, and...
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Stagestruck: Babylon in Vermont
As artists, how can one watch the millions of refugees fleeing Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, not to mention countries in Africa and Asia, and not want to address this issue? That question provoked the latest handmade production from Sandglass Theater, the world-class...











