by Peter Vancini | Aug 29, 2016 | Articles, News, Scene Here
It’s human nature to want to see just how far an idea can be pushed. Take Slide the City for instance, the 1,000-foot slip-and-slide that transformed Appleton Street into a lazy river for the Celebrate Holyoke festival this past weekend. It’s easy to imagine...
by Advocate Staff | Aug 29, 2016 | Articles, Letters from our Readers, News, Newsletter
Avoid GMOs; go organic Farmers have increased their pesticide use on GMO crops three-fold compared to standard conventional use; that’s enough reason to avoid GMOs (“Vermont’s Short-Lived GMO Experiment” Aug. 11-17, 2016). Most GMOs (genetically modified organisms)...
by Blaise Majkowski | Aug 29, 2016 | Articles, Blaise's Bad Movie Guide, Columns, Film, Newsletter
Let’s take a trip in the Wayback Machine to the early 1960s. The British company Eon Productions has just been accorded the honor of producing a series of films based on the Ian Fleming James Bond novels, starting with Dr. No. But there’s a catch. The contract says...
by Warren Johnston | Aug 29, 2016 | Articles, Columns, Food + Booze, Newsletter, The Pour Man
In the early 1970s when I was first widening my wine experience beyond the California jugs and the Portuguese roses, I discovered a French wine in a 2-liter plastic bottle. It cost about $1.50. It wasn’t very good. It had lots of strange residue in the bottom of the...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 22, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Stage, Stagestruck
The Valley’s summer theaters have folded their figurative tents, but looking west, the season isn’t quite over. Out toward the Berkshires, five troupes are still up and running through this weekend and beyond. Chester Theatre Company’s season closer is The...
