The V-Spot: Polyamorous During a Pandemic
Between clients and friends, this topic of the unique COVID-19 snafus for folks with multiple partners has been a common one.
‘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.
Kimaya Diggs on the Valley Advocate Sessions stage
Folk and soulful jazz with pull-on-your-heartstrings melodies
Best of V-Spot: Help! My boyfriend hates my vagina
He doesn’t seem to have much of an interest in my vagina — and my vagina, in my mind, is kinda the main thing that makes me a female sexual being.
Letters to the Editor: Support and advice for Alex Morse
“Godspeed Alex. Take back something for the rest of us broken folks.”
Staff Picks: A Renaissance Faire in Cummington and Majestic Saloon in Northampton
What to do this week.
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Drummer for ‘Black Panther’ soundtrack visits Pioneer Valley for first view of film
“Everywhere I go people say, ‘Wow this is a new instrument!’ and I say no, this is a very old instrument,” Diop said of the tama.
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Cinemadope: Cracking a Chestnut
Both Amherst Cinema and local Cinemark theaters will bring the famed Bolshoi Ballet’s version of E.T.A Hoffmann’s fairytale The Nutcracker to their screens this Sunday for a 12:55 screening.











