Valley Show Girl: The Valley Needs Doc Westchesterson
“The World Needs A Doctor” is a theme song for COVID-19. The video shows Doc in quarantine, playing Scrabble, smoking weed, playing music with a pyramid of toilet paper shown in the background, practicing yoga and meditating.
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.
Free Will Astrology: You’re in for natural highs, Sagittarius
Take advantage!
Perennial on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
This week’s Advocate Sessions performer is explosively high-energy post-hardcore art punk Perennial.
Letters to the Editor: Undocumented Immigrants Should be Eligible for Driver’s Licenses
Look for “Driving Families Forward” on Facebook for details on this statewide campaign in support of the Work and Family Mobility Act (S.2061/H.3012), and to learn how to take action to help make it a reality.
Best of the V-Spot: My Boyfriend Might Be Gay. Should I Care?
Originally published February 20, 2017 Hi Yana, I recently began “dating” my best guy friend over this winter break. He’s told me that he was raised by a super religious mom and that when he was younger he “rebelled,” and experimented with other men, which he blamed...
Stagestruck: Child’s Plays
Both of the longstanding children’s theaters that enliven the Valley’s summer schedule tickle the funnybone while feeding the imagination, but they go about it in quite different ways. PaintBox Theatre uses pop-up staging and lots of audience participation, while the Majestic Children’s Theater gives it “the full theatrical treatment.”
Bizarro Briefs Podcast: Loose yaks, stolen dentures, and hair farms for rich people
This week’s weird news … in podcast form.
Staff Picks: Ray Mason and Ants on a Log
Shows in libraries!
Basemental: Ugly Realities of Sustaining Life in the Cul-de-Sac
Liebman takes art extremely seriously, with an eye for the unsavory facets of frontiers and empire, life and death, in a perpetual state of silent, digitized warfare — the type of stuff most people seldom think about or even acknowledge.
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VIDEO: Fuzz Puddle on Advocate Sessions Friday
Check out a teaser video for the band’s upcoming Advocate Sessions performance to be released this Friday.
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Cinemadope: Schlep West, Young Man
Carvalho’s Journey — the true-life story of a Sephardic Jew crossing the still-new American West — screens at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst on Sunday at 2 p.m.
