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This weird week in weird news.
Stagestruck: Past, Present and Prologue
Two timely dramas are playing in the Valley this week and next, and a timeless tragedy is prequelled in the Berkshires, all of them grappling with vital questions of life and death.
Clueless Parent: Kicked Out a Few Minutes In
Local classical music community: you need to do better.
Cinemadope: The gift of gifts
See “Gift” at Amherst Cinema or the Academy of Music this week.
Stagestruck: The Shrew Problem
The Taming of the Shrew is Shakespeare’s trickiest play to perform these days – a thoroughly misogynistic tale in which daughters are auctioned to the highest bidder and the “shrew” of the title is “tamed” by a cunning fortune hunter. He (of course, he) is Petruchio,...
Podcast: Michael Kusek talks about his new marijuana magazine, Different Leaf
Former Advocate marketing manager starts another magazine, this time covering cannabis.
That’s One Small Step for a Band: Bandella, a musical group including astronauts, will play Hawks & Reed on July 27
Three of its members have lived in space.
Free Will Astrology: Prepare for a ‘lovequake,’ Aries
Brainstorm about adventures and breakthroughs that will boost exciting togetherness.
Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse to Challenge Richard Neal for Congress
Neal has been a target both of progressive groups and of rural members of his district, who have long complained that he has been absent from their communities.
Bad Tenants on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
This week’s Valley Advocate Sessions performer is bluesy indie rock and soul pop group Bad Tenants.
Letters to the Editor: Chicopee Police and online bullying
“Police departments shouldn’t be on social media, period.”
Sessions
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Three Decades of Music: Q&A with Cowboy Junkies vocalist Margo Timmins
We’ve been doing it for 30 years and we still really enjoy doing it. I think that, to me, is quite amazing.
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Cinemadope: Animal House
Brace yourselves, Potter fans.











