A Movement’s Moment: How Springfield is responding to a scathing DOJ report
Across Court Square in the city of Springfield the words, “BLACK LIVES MATTER,” are painted on Court Street in 20-foot-tall, bright yellow letters — a powerful symbol of a movement that has taken on a new urgency nationally and in our own backyard in this chaotic year...
Petition directed at IHEG costs co-creator her job at Gateway City Arts
In mid-August, an online petition calling for touring bands to boycott Iron Horse Entertainment Group venues began collecting signatures of musicians, performers, and community members. Less than three weeks later, an organizer of the boycott lost her job at Gateway...
Podcast: The consequences of working third shift
Editorial intern Jonathan Kermah talks about the night shift.
The V-Spot: Yana’s short-and-sweet anal education
Move slow, start small, use lots of lube
Cinemadope: Mystery Science Theater 3000 Live at the Academy of Music
Joel and the robots take on No Retreat, No Surrender.
Born IV Blues on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Born IV Blues is a teenage soulful blues band from the Berkshires
Letters to the Editor: RIP Frances Crowe
“May this icon of activism and integrity rest in peace and power.”
Free Will Astrology: Leo, Visualize Ancient Rome
ARIES (March 21-April 19): John Muir (1838–1914) was skilled at creating and using machinery. In his twenties, he diligently expressed those aptitudes. But at age 27, while working in a carriage parts factory, he suffered an accident that blinded him. For several...
Monte Belmonte Wines: New Hampshire’s tax-free liquor lie
I shot straight up in bed with an idea. “I’ll write about how the New Hampshire State Liquor Store is a crock of crap!”
Lightning strikes: Valley psych folk band Sweet Lightning makes its music video debut
The lush pastoral sounds of acoustic guitar, flute, fiddle, and upright bass echoed in slow motion through the Pushkin Gallery in Greenfield.
Valley Advocate Sessions Podcast – Blame Cadence
Blame Cadence is a one-woman chorus of looped soulful a cappella pop.
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VIDEO: Gabe’s Band on Valley Advocate Sessions Friday
Check out a teaser for anarchistic local rockers, Gabe’s Band.
It?s OK To Go Monogo
I’m a huge fan of “open” or “non-monogamous” relationships—when two or more people consensually agree not to be sexually and/or emotionally exclusive. Sometimes this looks like a couple being open to sleeping with others but...
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Stagestruck: Brother/Sister Act — The New Theresa Rebeck Play Gets World Debut in VT
The publicity for Downstairs, which opened at the Dorset (VT) Theatre Festival last week, gives rather short shrift to the fact that it’s a world premiere by the prolific Theresa Rebeck, whose plays Bad Dates and Mauritius are also being produced in the region this summer (at Shakespeare & Company and Oldcastle Theatre, respectively). Most of the attention has been showered on another first: Tyne Daly and her brother, Tim Daly, starring together onstage.
