Letters to the Editor: Are we there yet?
“The question we should all be asking is, “are we there yet”!
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.
New Holyoke Art Space PULP Kicks Off With Pop Art Exhibit
The gallery’s inaugural exhibit is by self-taught, Andy Warhol-inspired artist Dave Laro.
Fighting for a Springfield Bike Park: Safety concerns, frustrations with Mayor Sarno spurring advocates to act
“The mayor made comments there to incite … but he has no plan whatsoever to fix the problem.” -Alex Weck, RAD Springfield
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Lisa Martin on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Lisa Martin writes original songs ranging from country to folk roots music, but with a dash of bluesy rock
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Cinemadope: Let’s Fight – The conflicts of good stories
I’m sure that any first-year film major could tell you more than I can about what makes films tick, but for me, the best of them have always come down to the story of relationships — much like our own lives. Whether it’s He Said/She Said, Axis against Allies, or Harry...
