Monte Belmonte Wines: Trump’s Next Assassination may be the European Wine Market
On Jan. 14, the Trump administration could destroy it all by imposing a 100 percent tariff on European wine.
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.
Stagestruck: Scully, Scandal, and Buckets of Blood – National Theatre Live in Amherst
Two revisioned classics, a brand-new political drama, and some audience favorites are on tap in the Amherst Cinema’s series of broadcasts from the London stage via National Theatre Live. First up, this Saturday and again on the 14th, is Shakespeare’s most lyrical...
Guest Column: Richard Neal and the sabotaged free tax filing program
This is a story about what happens behind closed doors in Washington, how politicians quietly sell out the public interest to lobbyists and campaign donors, and how both groups then manipulate the truth to get away with it. Our main characters: The powerful tax prep...
Free Will Astrology: Can you be as efficient as a firefly, Taurus?
They are really good at lighting up.
V-Spot: Has Sobriety Killed My Sex Drive?
Is it my nature to be less sexually charged when I’m not masking insecurity with alcohol?
Ed Bentley on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Ed Bentley performs open mic-honed folk music with a sweet crooner voice.
Letters to the Editor: I’ve got my own Nifty Nabber now
Welcome to our letters to the editor page
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‘E’-asy Come.. ‘E’-asy Go: The Big E’s final weekend and more
Still haven't secured your Maine baked spud or lobster-laden Mac N' Cheese from the New Hampshire building? Better hurry. Its almost time to shepherd the Clydesdales back into the trailers and put the burlap sacks of the Giant Slide in mothballs. But that still...
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Winter Season Wrap-up
see a lot of plays, and I cover as many as I can. But the feast of performances always overwhelms the column inches, so now, with a new summer theater season on the horizon, I’m taking a final look back at the shows I’ve enjoyed since last summer....












