Stagestruck: Theater in Motion
A dance-theater festival, two one-woman plays, a twisted whodunit and a madcap opera brighten the New Year’s theater scene.
Clueless Parent: Surviving ‘It’s a Phase’
I knew that the “terrible twos” would arrive, but as it turned out, actually experiencing toddlerhood threw me off course.
Q&A: Murder By Death Coming to Holyoke
Murder By Death will be at Gateway City Arts with Sarah Shook and the Disarmers on Thursday, May 2 at 8 p.m. 92-114 Race St., Holyoke.
Local drug response program featured in national drug summit
The DART program was born out of a desire to save lives.
Stagestruck: Community Colleges Get in on the Act
This week and next, two local campuses mount trenchant shows that relate closely to their student bodies and our communities. At Holyoke Community College, “Ugly Lies the Bone” follows a returning war veteran who’s wounded in body and spirit. At Springfield Technical Community College,the omnibus piece “Motherhood Out Loud” takes a multi-sided look at kinship.
Local delegation hopes to learn — and teach — at nation drug abuse summit
Hampshire HOPE participants will present on community outreach work
The V-Spot: I’m Just Not Jealous and My Partner is Pissed
If misery loves company, jealousy loves a full-on dinner party full of miserable commiserators to feel terrible with
Cinemadope: A Woman’s World
For anyone who has grown up in the New England world of extended families, the world of Diane will be a familiar one, filled with old wounds and warm kitchens, but always with a reminder (if sometimes buried down a ways) of what makes it all so worthwhile.
Free Will Astrology: Learn from ‘Cards Against Humanity,’ Aries
Is it possible you’re undercharging for your products and services and skills? If so, consider asking for more. Reassess your true worth and seek appropriate rewards.
Stagestruck: Angles and Aliens — Three productions take a slanted view of our world
These are precarious days, observes Peter Schumann, founder and director of Bread & Puppet Theater. The social order, the democratic contract and the earth itself are tottering from unprecedented stresses. Bread & Puppet’s Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis,...
Jennifer Stuart on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
This week’s Valley Advocate Sessions performer is Jennifer Stuart who play talking folk music about love, life, and poetry.
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Staff PICKS! Lady Snowblood in Amherst, Freak Folkers, Orchard Ballet, and Yucks
Lady Snowblood at Amherst Cinema // FRIDAY Ah, the classic story of bloody and brutal revenge. …
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Cinemadope: A Bird in Hand, Sesame Street comes to Northampton
As I sit here in my shirtsleeves, typing away near a slightly open window, I really must insist that readers of this column remember this minor detail: it is February. This is the time when we’re all supposed to be calling all the hardware stores, asking about roof...












