by Advocate Staff | Jun 27, 2016 | Articles, Featured, Uncategorized
SUNDAY: High Water MarkIt’s been one year since the relaunch of the Ashfield Lake House, which means a funkadelic anniversary show with music inside and outside, featuring the return of What Cheer? Brigade, Providence’s best 18-member brass band, plus performances by...
by Kristin Palpini | Jun 27, 2016 | Articles, Food + Booze, News, Uncategorized
The staff at the Valley Advocate have been to many picnics, parties, hootenannies, hoe downs, shindigs, and festivals, but only one of us has ever tasted the infamous vodkamelon.Amanda Drane, our Third Eye Roaming yogi, claims to have made a vodka infused melon with...
by Hunter Styles | Jun 27, 2016 | Articles, Uncategorized
Hoop DreamsThis summer is pretty much guaranteed to be a scorcher. The Valley’s best way to scratch that b-ball itch while enjoying some air conditioning is probably the Basketball Hall of Fame’s annual 60 Days of Summer, which provides 60 consecutive days of...
by Hunter Styles | Jun 27, 2016 | Articles, Uncategorized
Shrew(d) ObserversIn a presidential election cycle as bizarre and theatrical as this one, it’s fitting that some of our weirdest art would start to imitate political life. Lauren Gunderson’s play The Taming — inspired in part by Shakespeare’s comedy The Taming of the...
by Steve Pfarrer | Jun 27, 2016 | Articles, Uncategorized
It was the era that became known as the Spanish Golden Age, when Spain was arguably the most powerful nation in western Europe, with a burgeoning colonial empire in the Americas and considerable territorial holdings in Europe, including modern-day Belgium, the...
