JJ Slater on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
This week’s Advocate Sessions performer is singer-songwriter JJ Slater, who writes original music that blends together folk-rock and psychedelic pop with jazzy chord progressions.
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.
Eliminating the Plastic Straw: Woman gathers support for Northampton ban
“It’s hard to quantify the number of plastic straws thrown away every day,” said Shields, “but the estimates are somewhere between 500 million and a billion.”
Editorial: Performing at a 24-hour ‘413 Says #ClosetheCamps’ event
Putting your art where you’re mouth is.
Bizarro Briefs: Hair farms for the super rich
It’s all about stem cells and 3-D printing.
Stagestruck: Getting Sticky
In the final week of this year’s Ko Festival of Performance, Sabrina Hamilton is looking forward to this weekend’s performance by the Ugandan musician-humanitarian Samite (see below) while musing on the season-so-far. Attendance is high and season subscriptions are...
‘Resisting a Culture that Says I Don’t Belong’: Local joins group of large-bodied women to hike Kilimanjaro
A Franklin County native along with 19 other plus-size women known as the “Curvy Kili Crew” recently hiked one of the largest mountains in the world: Mount Kilimanjaro.
Monte Belmonte Wines: The Wines Traveling Musicians Want For Free
I wondered, what do the rock stars at the festival want to drink? I went to the source and asked Lynne Bertrand, artist relations for Signature Sounds and the Green River Festival.
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VIDEO: Ginja Low Main on Valley Advocate Sessions Friday
Ginja Low Main mixes jazz fusion with funk and jammy psychedelic rock that doesn’t skimp on the groove.
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Cinemadope: Three films about hummus, bagels and blintzes
Sunday’s screening of Three Shorts at the Yiddish Book Center includes a film about one man’s journey through the Middle East in search of the best hummus in the world, a behind-the-schmear look at the goings-on at a legendary bagel place in Montreal, and director Dori Berinstein’s documentary look at the closing of The Cafe Edison.
