by Chris Goudreau | May 16, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News
The Pioneer Valley Workers Center (PVWC) plans on breaking ground this week on its planned four-acre worker-run cooperative farm on the border of Hatfield and Northampton. Lorena Moreno, a member of the PVWC and the seven-member farm cooperative, said the hope is that...
by Dave Eisenstadter & Chris Goudreau | May 15, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Music
It can be hard to remember it based on the cold, rainy weather we’ve had recently, but the middle of May is here. That means being outside, enjoying the flowers, and looking ahead to months more of being out and about before the temperature inevitably drops again and...
by From Our Readers | May 10, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Letters from our Readers
It’s Time to Demand Cruelty-Free Circuses Shame on MGM. I was very dismayed and disappointed to see that MassMutual, now run by MGM, recently hosted Garden Bros. Circus, one of the most inhumane and dangerous circuses in the country. When MassMutual Center hosted it...
by Chris Goudreau | May 8, 2019 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, Featured, News
The ‘Pooperintendent’ Returns Previously on Bizarro Briefs: a mysterious serial track field defecator was revealed to be a rival school’s superintendent. He was fired. But wait folks, that’s not all! Now, the former New Jersey ‘pooperintendent’ has sued a police...
by Advocate Staff | May 2, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Music, Staff Picks
Motherhood Out Loud at STCC // FRIDAY-SATURDAY Stagestruck columnist Chris Rohmann recently wrote about this production and described this play as 14 vignettes that “traverse the full terrain of the mom experience, from the throes of labor to the empty nest.” While...