Stagestruck: History Lessons – Recalling the past to inform the present
If the past is prologue, in these murky times it’s more necessary than ever to look back. This year, more plays than ever reflected or reimagined episodes from the past, casting light on the here-and-now.
Valley Show Girl: Adam Kozak and Music To Die To
With the perfect recipe: creative energy, the fear of becoming deathly ill, analog synthesizers, lack of sleep, disturbing unsolved murders, and a love for extreme horror, Burial Grid came to life.
Monte Belmonte Wines: No snobbism, stupid questions, or incorrect adjectives at Shelburne Falls Cork
The owner specializes in finding wines that are slightly off the well-trodden path.
Stagestruck: Degrees of Separation — Putting the opioid crisis center stage
Eight people are seated in a semi-circle at a meeting of Narcotics Anonymous. They are actually actors in a play, but though they’re not the recovering addicts they portray, each of them has a real-life connection to the nation’s — and the Valley’s — opioid crisis....
The V-Spot: How Do We Get Our Sex Life Back After Abortion?
Have sex that can’t result in accidental pregnancy like sex with hands, mouths, and sex toys. Beef up your birth control methods to add extra reassurance. Mostly, be nice to yourselves as you recover.
Cinemadope: The cinema scene of Franklin County
Despite its proximity to the more famous haunts of Northampton, Franklin County has always had its own lively arts scene.
Free Will Astrology: Read banned books, Aquarius
Commune with a variety of art and ideas and influences that are controversial, provocative, and intriguing.
Stagestruck: Infinite Chances for Love
Nick Payne’s time- and mind-bending play Constellations receives its local premiere this month at Gateway City Arts, a production of Ghost Light Theater, the Valley’s five-year-old purveyor of contemporary plays that speak to universal themes. The piece has made its...
The Green Sisters on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
This week’s Advocate Sessions performer are The Green Sisters with their mix of old timey, folk, Celtic, and bluegrass music with lush four part harmonies.
Basemental: So Riffy and Good
Together with Steve Cameron and Josh Daniel, Editrix is an explicitly leaderless and collaborative project likely to appeal to free jazz freaks and ‘90s guitar rock aficionados alike (i.e. me).
Staff Picks: The Mammals at Hinterland; Art of Adam Bosse; The Fly at Amherst Cinema
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Staff Picks: Harry Potter Inspired Music with Draco and the Malfoys
Harry Potter-inspired music, Billie Holiday-inspired jazz, and a Moth-inspired story slam.
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Cinemadope: Drawing it out, cartoons from other shores
When we talk about animated films here in the States, the conversation often gets stuck in the worlds of Disney and Pixar. Those powerhouse studios and their imitators have largely defined the big-screen cartoon for American crowds, and while their successes have...
