We needed unemployment reform years ago, and there’s a crisis now
This is a crisis that our unemployment system is ill equipped to handle.
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.
Stagestruck: Ripped from the Headlines
Three plays now on area stages were inspired by real-life events: a superpower scrimmage, a mass shooting, and a nuclear disaster. These timely dramas humanize the headlines and highlight the power of theater to hold a mirror up to our best and worst natures.
Podcast: Easthampton artisan Michael Poole on gun violence and potholes
Poole has works on display at Mt Toms Ice Cream and will be featured at Art in the Orchard.
Cinemadope: Musical journeys small and large
The Strange Sound of Happiness and Bring the Soul are playing locally this week.
Free Will Astrology: Let Scott Hamilton inspire you, Virgo
When you fall down, get up.
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Pick of the Day 3/30: Brooks Williams at the Parlor Room
The Advocate’s Sarah Heinonen made a wise staff pick a few days ago; Brooks Williams is performing tonight.
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Cinemadope: Wild Things
Matthew McConaughey is a koala now.











