Righting past wrongs:
It’s a difficult conversation to bring up. It’s a public discourse that some have devoted a large portion of their lives trying to initiate in order to bring about societal change. It’s a conversation that is hundreds of years old. It’s about the 400-year history of...
Cinemadope: The Chambermaid at the Academy of Music
Movies of note this week.
‘I decided the world was maybe ready for me now’: Julia Clark talks about her post transition return to music
“I transitioned first in 2007 and didn’t think I could make music anymore,” Clark said.
Editorial: Vaping ban the latest in a series of troubling state actions
We need more information — not arbitrary authoritarian action.
Bizarro Briefs Podcast: Dangerous Cheetos, TP wedding dresses, and animal crises
Weird news of the week.
Getting Away From The ‘Sea of White Dudes’: Dwellings Festival showcases talented femmes, people of color, and queer people
The Northampton Center for the Arts became a microcosm of art, poetry, and music for 10 hours on Saturday at the first Dwellings Arts Festival.
Stagestruck: Live from London, in Amherst
“Especially when compared to other portrayals of people with autism, I think this play is a lot less tone deaf,” says Sunshine Schneider, who like her character is “a person with autism navigating a neuro-typical world.”
Podcast: Luis Fieldman on Club Castaway strip club’s LGBTQ-friendly policies
Luis talks about reporting the story on Whately strip club Club Castaway.
V-Spot: I’ve Got Prozac Problems
The interplay between antidepressant medications like Prozac, sex drives, and depression can be tricky because for many people, both feeling depressed lowers their desire for sex as does taking the antidepressants themselves.
Free Will Astrology: Have sex like you’re not in Singapore, Aries
Singapore has one of the world’s lowest fertility rates.
Letters to the Editor: Pelosi for President — Can She Be Drafted?
Welcome to our letters to the editor page. Here you’ll find reader comments on Advocate articles and other news.
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Lisa Marie Ellingsen on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Lisa Marie Ellingsen is a Northampton-based Americana singer-songwriter who’s a little bit folk, blues, rock, and country.
God Help Us Get Off
My Christian high school-attending wife'll tell you I suck at religion. A born-and-bred apathetic atheist, I wouldn't know the difference between a Catholic and a Protestant if God smote me with a lightning bolt himself. Because the Bible doesn't exactly work for me...
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Cinemadope: Northampton Film Fest
Sharp-eyed film lovers will catch an occasional screening at Smith College, and smaller venues — community spaces, bars, and so on — show up on flyers posted around town for the oddball one-night show.
