Sister Jawbone on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
This week’s Advocate Sessions band is gospel-tinged vintage soul and bluesy rock group Sister Jawbone.
O Cannabis: Finding Your Perfect Dose
Discovering your ideal cannabis dose can be tricky.
Basemental: DIY Dystopia — A tech start-up sees house shows as ‘the next big thing’
A new way for investors to pocket the majority of the money from music shows.
‘Stupid and Irresponsible’: Activists speak out against burning biomass in Springfield
“Putting biomass back into the RPS is just stupid and irresponsible, so I think it’s really important that we make our voices heard at the DOER hearing on Wednesday,” he explained.
Stagestruck: Classics Revisited – Masterpieces coming to summer stages
In a season studded with world premieres (five at Williamstown Theatre Festival alone and three at Barrington Stage Company, for example), I’m equally struck by some of the revivals coming up in the Valley and Berkshires this summer. I don’t mean chestnuts from the...
Podcast: Maureen O’Reilly on the Holyoke Care Center college programs and trash buster John Coughlin
We’re relaunching the Valley Advocate Podcast!
V-Spot: How Do I Have Group Sex, Properly?
What is the proper etiquette??
Free Will Astrology: Who needs credentials, Aquarius?
Take a page out of Gertrude Belle Elion’s book.
Cinemadope: Neither Wolf Nor Dog at the Bing
The Bing Arts Center building, down on Sumner Avenue in Springfield’s Forest Park neighborhood, has had its share of ups and downs over the years. It started life as Kossaboom’s Service Station a century ago, and filled tanks for a few decades before a reconfiguration...
Lady Jane on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
This week’s Valley Advocate Sessions performer is folk-rock singer-songwriter Lady Jane, who combines melancholic melodies with lyrics that pull on your heart strings.
Letters to the Editor: Abortion Should Not Be Law of the Land
I have never responded to any of the numerous far left pieces I read in the Advocate but this one demands a rebuttal.
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Fat Bradley EP: A Funk Rock Voyage
Northampton-based funk quintet Fat Bradley’s new self-titled five-song extended play (EP) recording is an acid jazz fusion of instrumental kaleidoscopic funky rock that grooves along with frantic energy and a sense of reckless abandon that’s downright entertaining. This is virtuosic showmanship that’ll get you jumping.
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Stagestruck: Intimate Moments — Berkshires Summer Theatre Preview
Much excitement in the Berkshires this season, from the Williamstown Theatre Festival and Berkshire Theatre Group to Barrington Stage, Shakespeare & Co., and beyond.











