Caylin Lee on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
This week’s Advocate Sessions artist is Caylin Lee, a singer-songwriter who writes modern country with slice of life pop wisdom.
Cinemadope: The Real Story of Nureyev
Russian dancer turned Russian defector.
Free Will Astrology: Sing 1000-year-old songs, Pisces
Revive old beauty.
Stagestruck: Summer Theater Preview – New & Different
I’m looking at my summer theater calendar and counting over 60 productions due up over the next three lively months in the Valley and beyond. Some dozen world premieres, along with even more regional premieres, stand alongside classics from Ibsen to Albee, not to mention Shakespeare. Quite a few scripts wrestle with hot-button contemporary issues, including climate change, racial identity, global conflict, and guns.
Stagestruck on Broadway: Family Squabbles – the Clintons and the Lears
Two plays now on Broadway for limited runs, a world classic and a world premiere, revolve around fractured families whose dynastic dreams turn sour. One involves the ambitious daughters of an English king, the other the ambitious wife of a former U.S. president. Neither ends well.
Wild Bill and the Flying Sparks on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
This week’s Advocate Sessions band is Wild Bill and the Flying Sparks, which combines classic country and roots rock n’ roll with a Cajun groove.
UMass activists, Speaker DeLeo, accuse one another of ‘Trumpian tactics’ in exchange on education affordability
Exchange follows what activists describe as threat of arrest at State House during sit in.
Basemental: For the Love of Buskers
In order to obtain a busking permit in Northampton, one must trek to the Department of Public Works, located on Route 9 close to Florence, and fill out an application with information such as your place of residence and pay a $25 fee every year.
Letters to the Editor: Support Refugee Resettlement Efforts in the Pioneer Valley
Support Refugee Resettlement Efforts in the Pioneer Valley In 2017 there were 68.5 million people that were forcibly displaced and since then that number has only been growing, according to the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR). Of that number of...
Northampton Commission Recommends Voting Age of 16 and Ranked Choice Voting
“Students have been really advocating for themselves. This is a way in which we can really be heard and choose who represents us on a municipal level.”
Staff Picks: X, veteran poetry, Chris Goudreau, and free burgers
What to do this long weekend.
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Basemental: Landowner’s Edgy Riff on the ‘American Dream’
I laughed at myself for even entertaining the idea that this band could be anything but satirical.
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Cinemadope: Everybody Wants Some!!
Any director worth their salt knows their strengths. Scorsese has New York and the mob; Allen has New York and neurosis; Tarantino has pop culture and cursing; Bergman had Sweden, bleakness, and death. To me, one of the marks of an interesting director — an...
