Best of the V-Spot: Dry humping better than sex
Editor’s note: Sex and relationship advice columnist Yana Tallon-Hicks is currently on maternity leave. While she’s gone, we’re reprinting some of her best columns of the past several years, and are looking forward to her return in September. This column was...
Summer Arts: Valley Talent Showcase
Fame, Fortune, and a Little Fine Tuning The Valley Talent Showcase launched last fall to give up-and-coming local bands the chance to play a sizeable venue in front of new listeners and celebrity judges. It’s been held on the first Friday of each month, and so far, so...
Summer Arts: Eddie Izzard, Louis C.K.
Eddie, Louis. Louis, Eddie. We couldn’t decide whether to spotlight Eddie Izzard or Louis C.K., since both comedy titans touch down in the Valley this summer. So, we’re cramming them into one listing, and they’ll probably feel pretty awkward about it. Izzard,...
Summer Arts: Jar The Floor
If Mama Ain’t Happy... Nothing triggers resentment and affirmation in equal measure like a family get-together, and that unsteady ceremony looms large in playwright Cheryl L. West’s family comedy-drama Jar the Floor. The play follows four single African-American...
Summer Arts: Emily Dickinson Poetry
Em Dash “Because I could not stop for Death — He kindly stopped for me,” wrote Emily Dickinson. But in the Valley, celebrations of the famous Amherst poet never stop for long, and come September, fans of Miss Emily will once again grab the chance to do a mad dash...
Scene Here: Sunshine and Smokes
It’s 8:30 a.m. and the sun already feels warm on Main St. in Springfield’s South End. Birdsong can be heard beyond the roar of a passing bus. Across from a patchy, untended lot enclosed by a chainlink fence, children in backpacks skip along the sidewalk, weaving...
Arts & Culture: ARTstravaganza
Western Mass arts cats can mewl all they want about that 45-minute drive to Brattleboro — sometimes the journey is damn well worth it. That’s never been more true than this month, when the ’boro and neighboring towns throughout Windham County, Vermont, play host to an...
Your Friendly Guide to Pride
It was Northampton that held the first Pride march in the area, and those who participated walked down the Main Street of a very different America. The year was 1981. Non-heterosexual citizens held virtually no legal protections as employees, as tenants, as...
Hidden Franklin County gems
It’s 3pm in the hilltowns. Bright sunshine warms the Ashfield Lake, and the reflected light bounces up through the windows of the three-story Lakehouse, into the quiet bar and dining room. I’ve caught the tail end of Friday lunch, and the mood at the bar is calm. A...
Down to Earth: Right whales feast on the Cape, but for how long?
About 500. That’s smaller than Smith College’s first-year class by 100 and it's a tenth of the entering class at UMass. It's also the number of right whales known to be alive in the entire world. These huge creatures — second in size only to the blue whale — are among...
Halos & Horns
Halos and Horns is the Advocate's kind of annual review of the Pioneer Valley and beyond. We take aim at everything from politicians to pants, awarding kudos and condemnation. Food Justice Workers For some strange reason, humanity has gotten so far ahead of...
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Nightcrawler: ‘Color’ By Numbers
There may be record sunshine outside this September, but inside the area music circuit, the forecast is for winds of change. Not the least of which can be found in Colorway, a fairly new vehicle for the words and music of scene stalwart Alex Johnson. The band will be...
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