Bizarro Briefs Podcast: Seagull steals dog, asking someone out with a bomb threat, and a port-a-potty disaster
Dave and Trumpy talk weird news of the week.
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.
Stagestruck: English Stages, Part One — The National
Three of the four shows I saw at the National Theatre in London last month were star vehicles, and the fourth one’s ensemble cast featured a very well-known face. The first three also, coincidentally, ended in sudden reprieves from ignominious deaths. Another...
Club Picks: June 30 to July 6
A beach blowout, a punk trifecta, a farewell bash for Dj LeFox, and a little late-night lounge.
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Live Hive: Christine Ohlman’s in town
She’s spent many a Saturday night in New York City. Kinda comes with the turf when you sing lead vocals in the Saturday Night Live Band as Christine Ohlman did in the ’90s — an honor that literally gave her a front row seat to Sinead O’Connor’s papal paper rip and...
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