Monte Belmonte Wines: New Hampshire’s tax-free liquor lie
I shot straight up in bed with an idea. “I’ll write about how the New Hampshire State Liquor Store is a crock of crap!”
Spirit Ghost on The Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Check out Amherst-based indie/garage/ surf rock band Spirit Ghost’s Advocate Sessions performance recorded on May 23 in The Advocate Offices.
Forgotten: Springfield’s Black History Is Nowhere In Sight
One must scratch beneath the surface to find out how important black history is in Springfield.
Get Out: Pioneer Valley Summer Arts & Culture Preview 2017
We picked some of the biggest, best, and potentially overlooked events happening from now through September: There s Picasso, indie soul, country, food fests, wild dance, and Mad Max for starters …
Stagestruck: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Alive! and Playing in Amherst – Times Two
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, is Tom Stoppard’s audaciously meta-theatrical play that’s basically a backstage tour of Hamlet conducted by the pair of pawns who are summoned by the king to spy out the cause of the prince’s lunacy.
Cinemadope: Mad Max ‘Black & Chrome’ Escapes Hollywood’s Color Crutch
There has been a trend in Hollywood filmmaking that, for the last decade or so, has steadily changed the look of our blockbusters. It’s a pervasive change, but one that has happened gradually enough that many people aren’t even aware that it has been happening, quite literally in front of their eyes. So then, a warning: If you haven’t noticed, and don’t want the way you look at movies to be changed forever, skip the next paragraph.
Stream Queen: Move over, ‘The Breakfast Club’ Titles for all of life’s graduations (w/vid)
We all know what it’s like to start a new chapter, whatever that may entail, and just how awesome/terrifying/exciting/nauseating it can be.
Summer Stage Preview, Part II: Theaters on the Move
These days, Sam Rush often finds himself using the punning phrase “Home is where the art is.” That’s because his company, New Century Theatre, having lost its longtime home at Smith College in Northampton, is mounting a reduced summer season on two Valley stages while searching for a permanent abode. For now, though, he’s determined to feel “at home in any venue.”
Summer Stage Preview — Part I: The Berkshires
Two of the “big four” Berkshire companies open this week and next, with the others joining in next month, while the Valley’s summer gets underway in late June. So this week I’ll preview the season in the Berkshires, and look at what’s in store in the Valley next time.
TEASE (W/VID) FlavaEvolution’s Funky Jazzy Sessions Set … Full Set Coming Friday
\/ \/ Scroll down for video. \/ \/ Recorded May 9, 2017, at the party for Best Of the Valley Readers' Poll 2017 first place winners hosted by the Valley Advocate at the Log Cabin in Holyoke. Want more Sessions now? Go to sessions.valleyadvocate.com to hear...
Cinemadope: It’s Going to Be a Damn Fine Reboot, and FREE Streaming Movies )w/vid)
The reboot is promising to be quite a ride, and Amherst is setting the stage by screening Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. PLUS Film lovers in the region have another streaming option, and all it takes is a library card.
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Basemental: What’s a Jaume I? New Performing Art Space in Greenfield
Some of Franklin County’s coolest young scenesters christen a brand-new “center for experimental art” called Jaume I.
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