Editorial: Lessons from a less-than-super Tuesday
It’s Opposite Day in the Democratic primary.
Letters to the Editor: Three reasons not to put a biomass burning plant in Springfield, and what to do about it
The state Department of Energy Resources (DOER) has its head in the sand
Staff Picks: Guitars, fireworks, and a debate watch party
Get out and do stuff!
Editorial: How do you solve a problem like Eric Suher?
Cutting corners financially, with musicians, repairs, and seemingly employees, has been catching up with Eric Suher for a long time.
Journeys Through Fact and Fantasy: Peter Sís at the Eric Carle Museum
“I am always trying to follow the path of someone who went someplace and saw something amazing,” Sís explains.
Bizarro Briefs: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Seal
Singing seals, singing subway riders, and stolen song finches.
Bizarro Briefs Podcast 6/26/19: Weird news from the week
Bill Cosby’s prison lecture series, bringing your daughter to a crime spree, and multiple stories about poop.
Valley Show Girl: A dose of happy pills, I mean tunes, with the Prozacs
I mean, if you name your band after an anti-depressant, you kinda have some pill boxes to fill.
Blaise’s Bad Movie Guide: Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
No, don’t do this to Godzilla! Too late, the shark has been jumped.
Stagestruck: Ghosts on Summer Stages
The best thing about summer theater in this region is its variety. Last weekend, for instance, I saw an Irish drama, an American musical and a world premiere, at Chester Theatre Company and Barrington Stage.
Stagestruck Abroad: The Bard
When I was in London this month, I saw two Shakespeare plays. No, make that two and a half: the Bard’s most popular comedy, one of his least performed, and a new play in which he’s a character – and a plagiarist.
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Valley Advocate Q&A with indie folk violinist and virtuoso whistler Andrew Bird
Bird spoke with the Valley Advocate ahead of his Feb. 27 performance at the Calvin Theatre in Northampton about his penchant for musical whistling, his new album Echolocations: River, and his work scoring film and television projects.
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Cinemadope: These New Kid Flicks Aren’t Just For Kids
Let’s start with “Kubo and the Two Strings,” an animated tale set in an ancient imagined Japan.











