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Lip Bomb: Is This What I Signed Up For? What happens when college isn’t ‘perfect’

Lip Bomb: Is This What I Signed Up For? What happens when college isn’t ‘perfect’

by Phoebe Weissblum | Oct 24, 2016 | Articles, Columns, News, Newsletter

Remember applying to college? I’m sure you recall the glossy promotional packets you received in the mail from schools trying to win your application. There was always a picture on the front that looked like this: a group of college age kids sitting in a circle on a...
Staff Picks: Reap the benefits of the fall harvest at Northampton Restaurant Week

Staff Picks: Reap the benefits of the fall harvest at Northampton Restaurant Week

by Advocate Staff | Oct 24, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Film, Music

Hell Night at The Quarters • Sunday Hell Night returns to The Quarters on what many people consider “Devil’s Night,” the night before Halloween. There will be horror movies viewed on a projector all night as well as five hours of DJs spinning the best of all metal...
Back Talk: Charter schools and third party candidates, questions this years election brings

Back Talk: Charter schools and third party candidates, questions this years election brings

by From Our Readers | Oct 24, 2016 | Articles, Featured, Letters from our Readers, News, Newsletter

Charter schools hurt larger society Certain institutions should always be public. Social Security, prisons and education are three of them. We dodged a bullet when Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. People realized that the financial industry would be taking 31...
Free Will Astrology, Oct. 27-Nov. 2, 2016

Free Will Astrology, Oct. 27-Nov. 2, 2016

by Rob Breszny | Oct 24, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Astrology, Wellness

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I invite you to fantasize about what your four great-grandmothers and four great-grandfathers may have been doing on Nov. 1, 1930. What? You have no idea how to begin? You don’t even know their names? If that’s the case, I hope...
Best of 2016 Readers’ Poll Winners (Now a Board Game!)

Best of 2016 Readers’ Poll Winners (Now a Board Game!)

by Advocate Staff | Oct 17, 2016 | Articles, Food + Booze, Leisure, News, Newsletter

Game by Kristin Palpini, Kyle Olsen, Jennifer Levesque, and Hunter Styles In celebration of the Annual Manual — a condensed version of the Advocate’s yearly Best of the Valley Readers’ Poll — we’ve created a board game featuring some of the Best Of...
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