Staff Picks: Out! For Reel, Quinn Sullivan, Northampton Record Fair, and Juan Wauters/Jesus Vio/Stoner Will
Out! For Reel screens films featuring LGBTQ issues throughout the year, and this latest collection looks to be a great one.
The Top 9 Ways to Get Fit in Western Mass this Winter
A few ideas from your friends at the Advocate.
Halos & Horns: A look back at the good, the bad, and the dead of 2017
Who was naughty and who was nice in 2017.
Editorial: We’re Talking Horns upon Horns, Horns within Horns …
As the biggest horns-earner of 2017, Trump gets his own article.
Stagestruck: Gender Parity Still Elusive in Theater
In this time of long-overdue comeuppance for sexual harassment and assault, I approached my annual reckoning of gender equity in theater with fresh eyes.
A Cannabis Cafe Could be Coming to Easthampton with New State Regulations
Last week I sat down with Karima Rizk for a cup of coffee in her kitchen in Easthampton to discuss her new business, Cafe Vert. The coffee was like many other homebrewed cups of coffee: it was rich, balanced, and welcoming on the brisk December morning. But unlike...
The Valley Advocate’s Apocalypse Survival Guide
It’s coming … are you ready?
‘There’s Only Two Kinds of Music: Good Music and Bad’
Joe Louis Walker has a voice out of classic soul and blues guitar chops that were inspired by some of the greats — B.B. King, Muddy Waters, the list goes on. Walker, a Blues Hall of Fame inductee, grew up in San Francisco playing blues before entering into the...
Editorial: The Nuclear Option is Not an Option
Think about that: a mistake at a nuclear power plant has done more lasting environmental damage than the deliberate use of a nuclear bomb.
Basemental: All I Want For Christmas is Lowered Expectations
I am the Grinch. People who know me know this — my mom better than anyone. I scoff at Christmas songs and “holiday cheer,” wanting nothing to do with a holiday that is closely aligned with capitalism, patriarchy, and bad parties. But nothing warms my Grinch heart like...
Bearing the Burden of Controlling Birth
Women share stories of the stress and anxiety of preventing pregnancy.
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Dirty Dozen Brass Band Brings the Funk to Holyoke
The lineup has changed since 1977, but this is still one lean, mean act, full of energy and truly funky sound.
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