A Loaded Topic: Pioneer Valley firearms community is active, but often hidden
Why, exactly, is the gun issue such an issue?
Letters to the Editor: It’s Time to Demand Cruelty-Free Circuses
Hopefully MassMutual Center (MGM) will do the right thing, as hundreds of other venues have done, and close their doors to wild-animal acts.
Basemental: Music for a World without Jails
Many today, echoing the abolitionist struggle of emancipation from slavery, are calling for prison abolition. That echo will reach Greenfield next Saturday when organizers from Great Falls Books Through Bars will host a benefit show.
Valley Advocate Staff Picks: Weege & the Wondertwins, Old Flame, Sodada, and Bad Bad Hats
In typical “W&W fashion,” the band is urging you to “SUIT UP!” in your finest suits and dress up for the show. Best suit of the night will receive a free merch bundle.
Summer Times in the Pines – this summer’s music lineup at the Pines Theater in Northampton
This summer at the Pines Theater at Look Memorial Park in Northampton is shaping up to an eventful one with half a dozen shows .
Death With Dignity: Doctor Assisted Death Bill Making Strides with Lawmakers
Massachusetts End of Life Options Act has more co-sponsors and support from key committee members.
Editorial: We Need To Support Healthy Food Programs For Low-Income People
And we’re on the verge of making positive steps at the state level.
Bizarro Briefs: The ‘Pooperintendent’ Returns
Defecating superintendent suing for smeared reputation.
Beerhunter: 15 Local Havens with Great Craft Beer Selections
You just might lock in your new favorite craft beer spot.
Cinemadope: Love, Gilda: Gilda Radner, in her own words
Love, Gilda is director Lisa D’Apolito’s 2018 film about Radner, and it arrives this week for a special screening (co-sponsored by the Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival) at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst.
Blaise’s Bad Movie Guide: Howard the Duck (1986)
Disney/Marvel are raking in the big bucks, but it wasn’t always this way.
Sessions
Check out our most recent performances in the playlist below, or click here to dig into interviews and related material!No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Tundra Toddler on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Electronic punk and glitch pop artist, Tundra Toddler, played a set for Valley Advocate Sessions on Sept. 20, which is now available to stream.
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Cinemadope: Swede Hearts, a celebration of the best Bergmans in film: Ingmar and Ingrid
Hear that a local theater is hosting a Bergman festival, and the first thought that will pop into the heads of most art-house denizens will be that of the great Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. An icon for the ages, the director’s films — The Seventh Seal, Fanny and...












