Editorial: Investigating the treatment of asylum seekers in the U.S.
The world must remain safe for political dissidents; authoritarians can not be allowed to stamp out those who disagree with them.
Stagestruck: Ripped from the Headlines
Three plays now on area stages were inspired by real-life events: a superpower scrimmage, a mass shooting, and a nuclear disaster. These timely dramas humanize the headlines and highlight the power of theater to hold a mirror up to our best and worst natures.
Podcast: Easthampton artisan Michael Poole on gun violence and potholes
Poole has works on display at Mt Toms Ice Cream and will be featured at Art in the Orchard.
Cinemadope: Musical journeys small and large
The Strange Sound of Happiness and Bring the Soul are playing locally this week.
Free Will Astrology: Let Scott Hamilton inspire you, Virgo
When you fall down, get up.
Kimaya Diggs on the Valley Advocate Sessions stage
Folk and soulful jazz with pull-on-your-heartstrings melodies
Best of V-Spot: Help! My boyfriend hates my vagina
He doesn’t seem to have much of an interest in my vagina — and my vagina, in my mind, is kinda the main thing that makes me a female sexual being.
Letters to the Editor: Support and advice for Alex Morse
“Godspeed Alex. Take back something for the rest of us broken folks.”
Staff Picks: A Renaissance Faire in Cummington and Majestic Saloon in Northampton
What to do this week.
Basemental: No need to dig beyond Kurt Vile’s riffs to enjoy
While this is Vile’s most expansive record in terms of length, I’m not really sure it goes anywhere that profound or different from what came before.
Stagestruck: All the Livelong Eons
Two shows now playing on the Berkshire Theatre Group’s Stockbridge stages look at who we are as humans. One goes up close to delve into folks’ working lives, the other takes a long view – very long, from the dawn of time to the day after tomorrow. Working, subtitled...
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Pick of the Day 3/30: Brooks Williams at the Parlor Room
The Advocate’s Sarah Heinonen made a wise staff pick a few days ago; Brooks Williams is performing tonight.
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Stan and Ollie, Meet Punch and Judy — Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, with a touch of slapstick
The story goes that Samuel Beckett was walking through a London park with a friend on a glorious spring morning when his companion exclaimed, “Isn’t this just the kind of day that makes you glad to be alive?” To which Beckett replied, “Oh, I don’t think I’d go that...
