The Lost Tribe on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
The Lost Tribe is a CT-based band that’s led by a drum trio and combines world music jazz with Afro-funk.
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.”
Editorial: White Supremacy in the White House
It used to feel worthwhile to list off the terrible things that Donald Trump has done since assuming office in the beginning of 2017 — particularly the examples of his blatant racism. The Advocate did as much in a story at the beginning of 2018 pushing back on when he...
Bizarro Briefs: Let’s All Go to Area 51
The U.S. Air Force is strongly advising people against attending the event.
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Pick of the Day 3/15: Pinedrop at Hawks & Reed in Greenfield
Beware the Ides of March … or not. But you might want to head up to Greenfield to check out Brattleboro’s Pinedrop band.
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Cinemadope: Continental Divide
Strike up a conversation about foreign film with most American film buffs, and the discussion will almost certainly travel East, over the Atlantic, on a European course. Those buffs with enough wind in them might even reach the Middle East and parts of Asia, but few take the detour south to Africa…











