Editorial: Preserving community amid a communicable disease
Disease is something to take seriously.
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.
Podcast: Lauren Simonds on being an old stoner in a brave new world of legal weed
Information, and a lamentation
Free Will Astrology: Six fortune cookies for all
Fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead
V-Spot: How Do I Get Over My Unhealthy Ex?
How can I keep him off my mind, and stop feeling ashamed or guilty about the relationship?
Gundermann at Amherst Cinema highlights Germany’s Springsteen
As director Andreas Dresen describes him, the musician was a man “with his head in the clouds and his boots in the brown coal mud.”
Ch’Chunk! on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Ch’Chunk! blends together swing, gypsy jazz, and Americana to create its own modern take on jazz and roots music.
Letters from Our Readers: Poetry by Connolly Ryan
Poetry by Connolly Ryan.
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Kalliope Jones on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Kalliope Jones is teenage post rock band with lush harmonies and an eclectic spirit.
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StageStruck: The Ones That Got Away
I don’t fish. To be frank, I don’t approve of fishing, especially “sport” fishing, since, like hunting, it’s not a sport in the accepted sense, that is, a contest between two equal adversaries playing by the same rules. I don’t understand the outsize thrill folks seem...











