Amherst Cinema series on new directions in movies gets prestigious grant
Amherst Cinema’s original film series, Bellwether: New Directions in Cinema recently received a $15,000 Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
Stagestruck: Pre-Season Previews – Summer begins, spring continues
There’s usually a bit of a lull between the end of one theater season and the start of the next – the spring pause before the summer rush. But the pause keeps getting briefer and the seasons are starting to overlap. Take this week, when three Berkshire theaters open...
V-Spot: How Can I Let My Partner Touch Me?
I love pleasuring my partner so much! But I don’t let them touch me.
Free Will Astrology: Ally Yourself With Pirates, Leo
Sometimes the pirates are the democratic ones.
Cinemadope: Summer season means outdoor movies
Spider Man: Enter the Spider Verse kicks things off this year.
Guest columnist David Daley: Everybody does it? Not by a long shot, Rep. Neal
Everybody does it. That’s essentially Rep. Richard Neal’s response to my criticism in The Boston Globe of his pay-for-play fundraising and lavish galas where he’s wooed Washington lobbyists and stuffed his pockets with hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign cash...
Jake Klar on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
This week’s Advocate Sessions performer is singer-songwriter Jake Klar, who plays poetic folk and blues that stirs the soul.
Letters to the Editor: Forget the wall; plant a hedge
Letters about immigration, climate change, and Howard the Duck
Valley Advocate Staff Picks: Acid Dad, Majestic Open Mic, and Santo Taco
It’s a night of psychedelic rock n’ roll, experimental music, and a little bit of emo thrown in for good measure at Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center in Greenfield this Saturday.
Pioneer Valley Workers Center to establish worker-owned farm
The Pioneer Valley Workers Center (PVWC) plans on breaking ground this week on its planned four-acre worker-run cooperative farm on the border of Hatfield and Northampton.
A Street Fair Named Desire: Valley festivals you can find downtown
One of the great pleasures of this time of year is the street festival — those events that transform our ordinary Main Streets or town commons into performance spaces and pop-up block parties
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VIDEO: Seth Glier on Valley Advocate Sessions Friday
Check out a teaser video for multi-instrumentalist pop and folk songwriter, Seth Glier.
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Stagestruck: Vanya in Vermont
The irony of Anton Chekhov referring to his plays as “comedies” is often remarked. Most of his characters are bored to death and/or deeply unhappy, frustrated by love or circumstance or both, and his plays generally end with a bleak sense of hopelessness. But Linda...











