Cinemadope: Toon in — animation for the late-night crowd
Unspooling at 9:45 — the late start alone should give you a sense that these aren’t Looney Tunes
Cinemadope: Lost and Found
Local photographer Robin Young and others will lead a Q & A after each showing, and nearby cafe Mocha Mayas will open an exhibit by the Franklin County artists on Saturday at 4 p.m.
Basemental: Q&A with dance-pop musician, drag performer and punk rocker La Neve
La Neve, based in Providence, Rhode Island, plays the Ashfield Lake House this Saturday with Feminine Aggression and Karen from HR.
Stagestruck: Grand Openings – Summer theaters busting out all over
The summer season has been slowly gaining momentum, and this week it explodes, with 10 shows in the Valley and Berkshires opening or already up and running. Among these are a pair of classic musicals, two uncommon love stories set in Ireland, a satirical look at...
Valley Advocate Podcast – David Daley
Author of the book “Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America’s Democracy,” David Daley has also served as the editor of Salon.com.
The V-Spot: We’ve Got Different Love Languages
Hi Yana! My partner and I have been together for three years. In general we have a really great relationship with solid long-term goals in common and enjoy each other in many ways. However, it seems like occasionally we go through long stretches of poor communication,...
Free Will Astrology: Time for a spanking, Aquarius
By enacting this humorous yet serious ritual, you will set in motion corrective forces that tweak your unconscious mind in just the right way so as to prevent you from getting too much of a good thing; you will avoid asking for too much or venturing too far.
Introducing: The Bizarro Briefs Podcast
Since the retirement of longtime "News of the Weird" columnist Chuck Shepherd, the Advocate has done "Bizarro Briefs," our own collection of weekly weird news we find. Thanks to a partnership with Trumpy from Hits 94.3, with a similar fascination with finding weird...
Letters to the Editor: Burn biomass for the sake of the forest
“Millions of tons of timber are dying every year.”
Big Sav on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Auto-biographical rap that turns the pains of life into music.
Q&A: Amherst Rapper Big Sav turns pain and probation into music (with audio)
“I’m the burnt up man at the end of the fire, telling you to not go this way.”
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Musical Fundraiser for Charles Neville unites Pioneer Valley and New Orleans communities
“He’s such a great person, not only a great musician … It’s very heartwarming to him that people love him and are putting this show together,” Smith, a long-time close friend of Charles Neville, said.
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StageStruck: Peerless Pirates
Two contradictory things are going on at Pittsfield’s Barrington Stage Company. On the mainstage, the fearsome title characters in The Pirates of Penzance never kill anyone because they can’t bear to harm an orphan and all the captives they seize claim to be orphans....











