In Memoriam: Those who died in 2019
A tribute to some we lost this past year.
Stagestruck: New Kid on the Block
There’s a new theater company in the Valley, with a kick-ass name and no less a purpose than helping to “undo established hierarchical structures and their attendant damage.” It’s called Strident Theatre, and its vociferous founder is actor/director/playwright Susanna Apgar.
V-Spot: I Caught My BF on Grindr
He can’t explain why he was talking to other people, and swears up and down he is straight.
Cinemadope: Is Hellboy actually a Western?
This particular sheriff has a giant stone forearm and brick red skin.
Free Will Astrology: Libra, take the advice of Ovid … and Pat Benatar
“Love is a battlefield” indeed.
Julian Sherwood on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Julian Sherwood performs jazzy acoustic indie folk-rock with psychedelic riffs.
Stagestruck: Imperfect “Nonsense”
My brother is the world’s biggest P.G. Wodehouse fan. Well, maybe not the biggest — he’s got legions of competitors for that title — but big enough to have come up from his home in New Jersey to accompany me to the American premiere of a new Wodehouse-derived play....
Monte Belmonte Wines: Blue is NOT the New Pink
How does it taste? Mesa Amy pulls out the cork. The cork is, unsurprisingly, also extremely blue.
Back Talk: Non-violence belongs in schools more than military
Welcome to our letters to the editor page. Here you’ll find reader comments on Advocate articles and other news.
Valley Advocate Staff Picks: DakhaBrakha at Gateway City Arts, Mini Golf and Cocktails, and Plants of the Bible Release Show
World music quartet, DakhaBrakha from Kiev, Ukraine, are bringing their unique style to Western Mass.
Stagestruck: 25 Years on the Edge
In 1994, Stacy Klein moved her adventurous company, Double Edge Theatre, from Boston to a former dairy farm in rural Ashfield, and started milking the Muse. A quarter-century later, the 100-acre spread is home to a resident company of artists and a hub of visceral,...
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VIDEO Tease: Old Flame on Valley Advocate Sessions Friday
Old Flame is rollicking bluesy garage rock mixed with folk protest music.
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StageStruck: Six Degrees of Bloody Murder
The first time I saw Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 thriller about a wheelchair-bound photographer who solves a murder while gazing out his window, I was so scared by the gripping climax that I couldn’t shut my eyes in bed for fear of intruders in the dark. Mind...
