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Bizarro Briefs Podcast: Scamming the scammers, a date gone horribly wrong, drinking a drink with your own toe in it

Bizarro Briefs Podcast: Scamming the scammers, a date gone horribly wrong, drinking a drink with your own toe in it

by Advocate Staff | Oct 3, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Podcast

Valley Advocate editor Dave Eisenstadter and Hits 94.3 host Trumpy talk about the week’s weird news in a podcast version of the Valley Advocate’s Bizarro Briefs section. Learn this week about scamming the scammers, a date gone horribly wrong, and drinking a drink with...
Staff Picks: Mill River Rounders, Skate or Paint 2019, Indian classical music, and a ‘Diversity in Art’ exhibit

Staff Picks: Mill River Rounders, Skate or Paint 2019, Indian classical music, and a ‘Diversity in Art’ exhibit

by Advocate Staff | Oct 3, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Music, Staff Picks

Mill River Rounders at Mill 180 Park // Friday The Mill River Rounders will be bringing its blend of banjo, washtub bass, and guitar old-timey/bluegrass stylings to Easthampton’s Mill 180 Park this Friday night. Mill 180 features lawn games and a cafe, which works...
Clueless Parent: My son is ready for potty training. I may not be.

Clueless Parent: My son is ready for potty training. I may not be.

by Dave Eisenstadter | Sep 27, 2019 | Articles, Clueless Parent, Columns, Featured

What I’ve learned about parenting in my short two-plus-year tenure, is that everything is a phase, and some last longer than others. When my son was still an infant, laying still was a nice phase — he stayed where we put him. But that was replaced by rolling, and we...
Staff Picks: Tony Silva, the Molice, Mile Twelve, and Far Out Films

Staff Picks: Tony Silva, the Molice, Mile Twelve, and Far Out Films

by Advocate Staff | Sep 26, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Staff Picks

Spanish guitarist Tony Silva at Progression Brewing // THURSDAY Easthampton resident and phenomenal Spanish guitarist Tony Silva is one of the Valley’s true artistic gems. He’s been playing acoustic guitar for more than 40 years and his influenced by everything from...
Clueless Parent: My son is ready for potty training. I may not be.

Editorial: Animal rights is the elephant in the room for the Big E

by Dave Eisenstadter | Sep 24, 2019 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News

It is long past time the Big E ended displays involving wild animals — or what should be wild animals — held in captivity. As if to prove the point, earlier this month, Beulah the elephant, owned by R.W. Commerford & Sons Traveling Petting Zoo in Goshen,...
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