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.
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.
Bizarro Briefs: A Fish Out of Water
This week in weird news.
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.
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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.
How to Make a Gayby
My urges to wipe the snot off a stranger's baby's nose are practically unfightable. My womb aches. Unlike others struck by baby fever, I can't just poke some holes in the condom and call it an "accident"—drats! Ladies making babies with ladies has extra...
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Cinemadope: Musical Bandits Plan Their Escape Tour
When September hits, the kids head back to school — and for film fans, that can be a great thing.










