Stagestruck: Bridging the Social Distance
With campuses closed and classrooms empty, teachers of acting, directing, and other hands-on theater skills are challenged with applying long-distance work-arounds to complete their spring courses. Forget “intimacy training” — how can you do scene work when your actors have only screens to touch?
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.
Podcast: Alula Shields talks about banning plastic straws in Northampton
Following a story about her efforts, the Advocate sits down with her and discusses the reasons behind her anti-plastic advocacy.
Cinemadope: Those Meddling Kids — Stories of pint-sized heroes
The Goonies, How to Eat Fried Worms, and Dora the Explorer, all playing locally this week.
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Pick of the Day 4/15: Fatai at the Parlor Room
Fatai is a big deal. She’s sold-out multiple headline tours in North America, Australia and New Zealand, and is touring again internationally.
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Cinemadope: The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
Filmmaker Brett Story’s documentary — which looks at the long-rippling effects of American incarceration — comes to Amherst Cinema on Monday night.
