Cinemadope: Child’s Work
As shown by Shraysi Tandon’s award-winning documentary Invisible Hands, which comes to the Berkshire Museum’s Little Cinema this weekend, some of the world’s biggest corporations are deeply involved in a system that is complicit in exploiting the world’s most vulnerable population — even, as the film shows at one point, literally selling children into forced labor.
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
Review: ‘The Promise of Elsewhere’ by Brad Leithauser; ‘Offline’ by Brian Adams
Brian Adams will read from “Offline” on May 8 at 7 p.m. at Amherst Books.
Valley Advocate Staff Picks: Maniac, Valley Winds Cinco de Mayo, and Motherhood Out Loud
This production is a great opportunity to check out Springfield Technical Community College’s theater program, and a good way to spend the weekend before Mother’s Day.
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Court Etiquette on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Court Etiquette is a Northampton-based indie pop band fused with rollicking roots rock. The band performed on the Valley Advocate Sessions stage on Sept. 5. Check out the band's full performance in the video below. Interview with Court Etiquette:
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Cinemadope: Toot Your Own Horn
It must have been in 1989 or so that I first saw Colors, director Dennis Hopper’s story about police and gang violence in Los Angeles. Set mostly in South Central and East L.A., it starred Sean Penn and Robert Duvall as partnered cops — a rookie and his mentor —...
