Cinemadope: Home Movies
As we all navigate our way through this new landscape of isolation and social distancing, most of us have lost the small local connections we once took for granted. The familiar hello of a barista who poured our morning coffee, the nod of the bus driver who brought us...
Stagestruck: In Company with Shakespeare + a truly Bazaar production
Shakespeare & Company’s name has threefold associations. It’s a theater that works in the company, as it were, of its eponym. It shares the name of the legendary bookshop on Paris’s Left Bank, lending an air of bohemian audacity and camaraderie to the enterprise in Lenox. And the two-part moniker signals that here, Shakespeare keeps company with other playwrights.
Podcast: Shutesbury rapper Chris Focus on finding hip-hop by accident
Chris Focus on his start as an artist, his evolution, Rosebud Creatives, and more.
Cinemadope: Keeping Time — Our lives in music
Memphis ‘69, directed by Joe LaMattina, is an unearthed time capsule.
Free Will Astrology: You’re a grown up person, Pisces
In the past months, you have been doing good work to become more of a fully realized version of yourself.
Quincy on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
This week’s Advocate Sessions band is North Adams-based band Quincy, which combines Americana with bluesy roots rock, and indie folk.
Best of V-Spot: Pee or ‘squirt’? Understanding vaginal ejaculation
Editor’s note: Sex and relationship advice columnist Yana Tallon-Hicks is currently on maternity leave. While she’s gone, we’re reprinting some of her best columns of the past several years, and are looking forward to her return in September. Hi Yana, I started...
Letters to the Editor: A straw ban could hurt the disabled community
“Hopefully a compromise can be made.”
Bizarro Briefs: If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Eat ‘Em
Selling at $5.50 a slice, the grasshopper-covered pizza is actually selling quickly, according to the owner of Evel Pie, the pizzeria. The name of the pizza? “The Canyon Hopper.”
Blaises’s Bad Movie Guide: Mr. Sycamore
Jason Robards stars as John Gwilt, a downtrodden mailman who is less interested in delivering packages than conversing with the various shrubs on his route. “You want to be a sapling all your life?”
Staff Picks: The Goonies, Adrian Belew, and From Gentrification to Reparations
This week’s Valley Advocate Staff Picks include The Goonies, Adrian Belew, and From Gentrification to Reparations.
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Anders Warringer on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Anders Warringer performs eclectic acoustic originals with a side of absurdity.
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Stagestruck: Sitting Targets
Years ago, when I was living in England, one day the doorbell rang and there stood two painfully clean-cut young men in white dress shirts, narrow ties and pearly smiles. “Hello!” one of them grinned, holding up a serious-looking volume. “My name is Elder Smith, this...
