Marty Nathan: ‘Clean energy doesn’t come out of smokestack’
Polluted air means worse asthma for any community. Though Springfield’s air has been cleaned up significantly over the decades, Hampden County still gained an F rating for levels of the respiratory toxin ozone this year.
Podcast: A victory against residential pipelines
A conversation with Longmeadow resident and activist Michele Marantz.
Stagestruck: Summer Snapshots
Thinking back over the summer theater season just ended, images from memorable shows are passing before my mind’s eye, and ear — from striking moments in performances to sets and soundscapes. Here are some Valley snapshots. Chester Theatre Company celebrated its 30th...
Cars Go West on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
This week’s Advocate Sessions performer is Cars Go West, which combines psychedelic jams with catchy indie rock.
Letters to the Editor: A mayor that makes blood boil
The mayor led the charge and marched onto the Hampshire College campus to protest the decision to take down a flag.
Staff Picks: Munio Makuuch, Elmer’s open mic, From the Woods, Lonesome Brothers
The Smith College Museum of Art has just opened a new exhibit on the late Japanese-Amercan poet and printmaker Munio Makuuch, who with his family spent much of World War II in an internment camp in Idaho for Japanese Americans.
Valley Advocate Sessions Podcast – Lush Honey
Lush Honey is a group that makes funky soul and progressive rock ‘n’ roll
Fifty Years From Now, What Will They Say About the “Summer of ’19”?
Maybe that it was the year Americans reclaimed their democracy.
Editorial: Fear of ‘straight white guys’
Straight white guys don’t have a monopoly on fearing others. They can be feared, too.
‘An organizer to the very end’: Friends, family remember Northampton activist Frances Crowe
“She lived an amazing life and had a beautiful death at home surrounded by her children,” Crowe’s 72-year-old daughter, Caltha, said.
Longtime Northampton activist Frances Crowe dies at 100
When asked recently how many times she had been arrested in the services of causes she believed in, she said, “not enough.”
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Pick of the Day 5/14: The Sea and Cake
The Sea and Cake is an indie band formed in the way back — 1992.
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Stagestruck: Radical Notions, ‘Kunstler’ and ‘Heartbreak House’
In my column in last week’s Advocate, a preview of the Valley’s summer-theater season, I reported that many of the area’s upcoming shows reflect, indirectly or explicitly, “the political landscape we are all traversing these days.” Sure enough, the first two summer shows out of the gate – not in the Valley but in Pittsfield and Hartford – do indeed invite, and in one case compel, reflections on our perilous present day through the prism of traumatic historical eras.
