Love Letter to a Nightmare
“I secretly believe that I am a goddess with very brief moments of incarnation,” Jennifer Johnson declares, robed in a long white shift, a pair of ram’s horns set on her head. She’s portraying – or perhaps channeling – Leonora Carrington, the free-spirited...
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
Editorial: Even Politicians Are Beginning to Support Medicare For All in Mass
Earlier this week, both Holyoke and South Hadley overwhelmingly passed municipal resolutions in support of Medicare for All legislation. A few weeks earlier, Boston’s City Council did the same. They join Northampton, Cambridge, Williamsburg, and assorted other...
Bizarro Briefs: A daring escape (with cat)
A real-life action movie (starring an elderly woman and her cat).
Q&A: ‘Rafiki’ film hopes to spark change in Kenya
Now, Out! For Reel LGBTQ Films is bringing Rafiki to Northampton’s Academy of Music Theatre this Saturday for a 7 p.m. screening.
Valley Show Girl: Weege & The Wondertwins
Western Mass’s Weege and The Wondertwins turn it to 11 on the jazzometer and when listening to them, they send you to the nearest time machine.
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Valley Show Girl: Luthier’s Unplugged: Metal, Grunge, and Singer/Songwriter Action
If Nina Gordon from Veruca Salt was now taking over vocals for Cobain… that would be Swivel. Heart-hands.
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Stage Struck: Games, Courtly and Pastoral
Two classics come to the Amherst Cinema this month via the National Theatre’s NT Live series. One is a courtly game of wicked wagers and voluptuous pleasures, the other a comically romantic repudiation of courtly artifice. Les Liaisons Dangereuses, playing this...
