V-Spot: Kinky and Platonic?
My partner is adamant that the kink community is only about hooking up for sex. She refuses to believe that relationships in the community can be non-physical.
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.”
Best of the V-Spot: Dry humping better than sex
Editor’s note: Sex and relationship advice columnist Yana Tallon-Hicks is currently on maternity leave. While she’s gone, we’re reprinting some of her best columns of the past several years, and are looking forward to her return in September. This column was...
Bizarro Briefs Podcast: How many people are actually going to show up to this Area 51 raid?
Dave and Trumpy talk about weird news this week.
Valley Advocate Staff Picks: Colorway’s farewell and the Glasgow Lands Scottish Festival
If you haven’t heard Colorway yet, or if you’re a diehard fan, this is a must-see show before Alex Johnson heads off to Japan.
Monte Belmonte Wines: The Western Mass Wine World’s Involvement in the Pan Mass Challenge
Wine can make you a little weepy but it wasn’t the wine working when I saw how emotional these wine reps were when speaking about the Pan-Mass Challenge.
Two years after failed vote, Greenfield adopts ‘Safe City’ ordinance
“This is more than just a legal or illegal immigrant situation. This talks about who we are as a community,” Sonia Lindop said.
They’re Kind Of A Big Deal: A few of the Valley’s homegrown rock stars
When he’s not aboard Iron Maiden’s private jet en route to a 50,000-plus stadium gig in South America or Europe, Anthrax guitarist Jonathan Donais says there’s no place he’d rather be than his Easthampton home and “triangle.”
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Pick of the Day 3/16: Dustbowl Revival at Gateway City Arts in Holyoke
We made it! It’s Friday and it’s time to let it all hang out … in Holyoke. The Dust Bowl Revival is blowing into Gateway City Arts tonight.
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Stagestruck: Ghost Stories
Hartford Stage and TheaterWorks Hartford present a riveting production of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” and “Relativity,” a new play by Mark St. Germain that imagines an encounter with Albert Einstein (played by Richard Dreyfuss) and his long-lost daughter.











