Stagestruck: All the Livelong Eons
Two shows now playing on the Berkshire Theatre Group’s Stockbridge stages look at who we are as humans. One goes up close to delve into folks’ working lives, the other takes a long view – very long, from the dawn of time to the day after tomorrow. Working, subtitled...
Click It! Recycling: It’s Not as Mainstream as You May Think
Does your town recycle, like, really recycle? Click around and find out.
According to an Advocate analysis of state trash data, the community with the top recycling rate in the Pioneer Valley is Belchertown, which recycles 67 percent of everything people toss out.
Texas Roadhouse and the End of America
Hunter went to sample some steak. He came back with an existential crisis.
Free Will Astrology, July 21-27, 2016
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You now have more luxuriant access to divine luck than you've had in a long time. For the foreseeable future, you could be able to induce semi-miraculous twists of fate that might normally be beyond your capacities. But here's a caveat: The...
This Weekend: Paul Taylor Dance Company
Taylor Made It’s just a hop, skip, and a flying leap from Manhattan to the Berkshires, at least for the Paul Taylor Dance Company. The group has been trucking up shows to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center for nine years running now, but the good thing about a...
Club Picks: July 21 to July 27
Theodore’s Blues, Booze, and Barbecue hosts one “crazy-ass mash up of funk, second line, blues and jazz, and soul.”
Seuss Day: Tue July 26
The Doctor Is Out and AboutAnd to think that he grew up on Fairfield Street! Theodor Seuss Geisel — a.k.a. Dr. Seuss — was born in Springfield to German immigrants in 1904, and although he moved to California for much of his adult life, it is on these local blocks...
Nerding Out With: Corn photographer Gregory Thorp
The New Cornographers A 70-year-old stranger named Gregory Thorp sent me an email last week. “In Ashfield, I am photographer of corn,” he wrote, “and I have one in particular that might be useful to the Advocate.” This is far from the strangest submission we’ve...
Between the Lines: Catching Up With Old Beefs, Part II
Since the Civil Rights era, dissenters have been taught to protest peacefully while the nation goes about the business of war and imprisonment. There is unlikely to be a consensus on what foments justice — war or peace.
Back Talk: Why not deport criminals? Mourning So Many
“Your article says that the person suspected of being here illegally would have to be arrested and be a “high priority” for ICE meaning they’ve committed a crime previously as well. Why should we keep them in the country, likely in jail, under these circumstances?”
The Pour Man: Champagne Chuck; inexpensive bubbly
In addition to making excellent Champagne, Charles Heidsieck was a dapper gentleman, a colorful character and a helluva salesman. He was known as “Champagne Charlie” in the upper echelons of New York and New England society after he introduced his bubbly in 1852.
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Staff Picks: Metamorphoses, Llama Lasagne’s Ladies Night and more
Llama Lasagne’s Ladies Night • Oct. 29 Local band Llama Lasagne — a conglomeration of musicians from The Mary Jane Jones, Alchemystics, and more — is hosting a Ladies Night event at the Depot at Union Station in Northampton. A portion of Ladies Night ticket sales will...
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