Calendar of events
Northampton Summer Park Series ready to rollNORTHAMPTON — For the sixth year, the Northampton Arts Council will host its Northampton Summer Park Series, live music and dancing throughout the summer in Pulaski Park downtown. Admission is free. The concerts continue a...
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 —...
Stagestruck: Women in the Lead
Three productions by women-led theaters echo themes around gender – from activities women aren’t “supposed” to engage in, to a trans transition, to young men of color in the school-to-prison pipeline.
Podcast: Julia Clark on her post-transition return to music
An interview with musician and trans woman Julia Clark.
V-Spot: He’s Having an Affair With Me
“I had an affair and I feel like the worst person ever and I don’t know what to do.”
Free Will Astrology: Your own demons are enough, Virgo
Saying no to “Why don’t you come over and chill with me and my demons?”
Letters to the Editor: Tennessee Gas project puts my neighborhood at risk
Letters on a gas pipeline project, a reopening strip club in Whately, and Nancy Pelosi.
Monte Belmonte Wines: A Man with La Misión
Where in the world was Carménère? Santiago. Well, Chile at least.
Philip B. Price on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Philip B. Price (Winterpills) writes finely crafted pop songs mixed with experimental rock stylings.
Staff picks: Smokey Robinson, The Chambermaid, Carinae, Great Falls Festival
What to do this week.
Sessions
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Pick of the Day 6/19: Mutlu at the Iron Horse
After last night’s weather, you need a de-stressor. Check out Mutlu at the Iron Horse tonight.
The Life & Times of Mr. Condom
It's not easy being a condom. You're pressured to protect against STIs and pregnancy and get mega-blamed when you don't. You plunge head-first into some shady places and then you're tossed aside like common trash. And at your distinguished age! Condoms have been the...
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Stagestruck: Going for Goal
The timing was kind of perfect. Last week, just as the U.S. men’s soccer team was being eliminated from qualifying for next year’s World Cup, Hartford’s TheaterWorks was opening The Wolves, an energetic if puzzling play about women’s soccer. Make that girls’ soccer....











