The V-Spot: Can I Ask for More Sex Without Being a Creep?
Ask your partner about their boundaries, respect the boundaries that are set, hold space for discussing each others needs with consent and optionality always on the table and you’ll be avoiding the very behaviors that make a sexual predator predatory.
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...
Editorial: Paying Homage to the Nuclear Resistance
In the 74 years since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, local anti-nuclear activists were an important check on nuclear expansion.
The Beerhunter Abroad: Calling London’s Craft Beer Mile
It really wasn’t until the 2010s that an interest in these craft beer trends really exploded in London.
Valley Show Girl: End of Summer Music Festivals
The end of Summer is near, but there are still more opportunities to rock out at a music fest this month. From jazz to reggae, Woodstock to metal, I guarantee you there’s at least one you’ll wanna attend.
Stagestruck: Curve of the Season
Summertime is winding down, and so is the Valley’s theater season – but not quite. Chester Theatre Company opens its final show this week, and Berkshire theaters are still running and adding new productions.
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Staff Picks: What Cheer? Brigade, Holyoke Innovation Week, Poor People’s Campaign
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Stagestruck: Identity Crises
The shows now playing at Hartford Stage and TheaterWorks couldn’t be more different, but they share a focus on lost or estranged parents and their children, and crises of identity.
