Stagestruck: Burnett-ing Down the House
Archie Burnett is a living repository of the house dance that coalesced in after-hours dance clubs, and “Life Encounters” is his personal odyssey of discovery and initiation, narrated in onstage vignettes with his intergenerational, international, multiracial troupe.
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
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Local Calendar: Monday 6/18 – Thursday 6/21
Your sneak peak of what’s happening in the Valley this week
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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Stagestruck: Culture Clashes on the Border and on the Island
Two plays in the Valley this weekend couldn’t be more different but at the same time so close to the bone of our current national crisis of xenophobia and identity. Building the Wall, in Northampton, is a tense confrontation that touches on today’s headlines and then...
