Stagestruck: Summer Snapshots
Thinking back over the summer theater season just ended, images from memorable shows are passing before my mind’s eye, and ear — from striking moments in performances to sets and soundscapes. Here are some Valley snapshots. Chester Theatre Company celebrated its 30th...
Fracked Gas Protesters Names Released
Eighteen protesters were detained at Berkshire County Jail on May 2 after blocking access roads to the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company’s easement where construction of a $93 million 3.8-mile Connecticut expansion gas pipeline project at Otis State Forest in Sandisfield...
Hannah & Maggie on the Advocate Sessions Stage
Bright-eyed and bolstered by a rapidly growing fan base, the award winning NYC duo has set out to make the world of singer-songwriters a more cheerful place. Although they’ve been favorably compared to Simon & Garfunkel and The Indigo Girls, these ladies have an...
Valley Show Girl: Gimme, Gimme Noise Pollution, experimental night at The Root Cellar in Greenfield
After a full day of sitting inside a dankly weed-scented office — we did a photo shoot of some nuggets for this 4/20 issue — my first thought walking into The Root Cellar in Greenfield for an experimental show is “damn this place smells good” … and familiar.
Rick Murnane Live on the Sessions Stage
Rick Murnane is a Northampton-based singer-songwriter who has played with more area bands than you can shake a drumstick at, but his guitar skills are equally impressive when he plays his powerful and tender songs solo. Whether you’re listening to “Last Friday,” Murnane’s monthly songwriting series or during his regular live gigs up and down the Valley, Murnane will enthrall.
Here’s a tease for Murnae’s recent spot at the Valley Advocate’s Sesssions. To see the full mini-concert, visit sessions.valleyadvocate.com Friday afternoon. For now, just a taste of what Murnane has to offer …
Machakos Kyalo: Amherst rapper sending music, trees and hope back home
Growing up in Kenya musician Kyalo Maingi was focused on daily life with his family. Today, living both in Amherst and Kenya, he uses his music to help inspire school children from where he grew up.
Review: Art Stop(s) on Main Street, Springfield, from magnificent to meh
The use of light in these pieces is like the butt of a pool stick to the eye. I can appreciate the study of the “insignificant,” and be amused by the detail revealed in the scans: the swirl of the brush, the collection of dust and tiny, trapped hairs, the brittle cracks between the colors creating something like an alien grand canyon. But if these paint chips could talk, they’d say, “Sup?”
The Beerhunter: Turnpike Two-Stop
Two worthwhile breweries off exit 9 The naturalist John Muir once observed that “when one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” I’m no bearded environmental philosopher, but I do like to kick back with a pint sometimes and...
Calling All New Bands!
We’re still a few months out from July’s annual Green River Festival in Greenfield, but we’re right on time to share a special early announcement from producers Signature Sounds. This year, the festival will add a new stage called the Next Wave Stage, which will host...
Film Screening: Holding Hands with Ilse
Strangers No More In the 1950s, Hampshire College professor Abraham Ravett relocated with his Polish Jewish family from Eastern Europe to the United States. Ravett was just three at the time of the move, but he carried with him a memory — and a single black-and-white...
April 13: Noam Chomsky at UMass Amherst
Close to Noam Leftist hero Noam Chomsky, now 88, has been around the block a few times, picking up new fields of expertise like normal people pick up groceries. He’s a world-renowned linguist, philosopher, author, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic,...
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Nightcrawler: Who’s rocking the stage at this weekend’s International Food Fest
By Gary Carra In 2014, Thomas Kielbania Jr. revived Chicopee's storied Kielbasa Festival after a nearly two-decade hiatus. Now, he's reinventing it – and renaming it, and relocating it – to West Springfield, for what's shaping up to be a super-sized smorgasbord of...
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