Empty Arms group supports parents who’ve experienced loss
It was October 2018 when Emily Collins of Holyoke, now 30, had her second child, Sebastian, who was born 12½ weeks premature. Sebastian lived for 15 days, then died at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield.
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.
Frances Crowe: Now is the time to stop building nuclear weapons
Perhaps no concern — not even global warming — rings more imminent than worrying about nuclear weapons.
Walking for a nuclear-free future — for 40 years
Jun Yasuda, known to many as Jun San, has been actively opposing nuclear weapons and nuclear energy for decades, having walked across the country eight times in protest. Born in Japan, Yasuda, 70, now lives in New York State, near the Grafton Peace Pagoda, a Buddhist...
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The CDs You Gave Me: ‘Hush Money’ is pure catharsis
The last song on the record, “Paris Accord, 2017” is apocalyptic in its outlook of a world devastated by climate change.
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Cinemadope: The Venice Ghetto – 500 Years of Life
An unusual mixture of techniques — documentary, drama, and animation are all part of Giordano’s palette — come together to tell the story of Europe’s oldest Jewish ghetto.
