by Hunter Styles | Jun 27, 2016 | Articles, News
Strange creatures roam the wilds of the Valley’s Instagram feeds. That’s where we met George and Gracie, resident emus at the Starlight Llama solar-powered bed and breakfast in Northampton. “Modern dinos, these emus,” writes Boston resident Sonciary Honnoll...
by Hunter Styles | Jun 27, 2016 | Articles, Uncategorized
Visit from a Dark Horse As a teenager, Micah Scott was lost in a musical fugue, shuffling his tastes from Creedence Clearwater Revival to The Beatles to Pantera and Alice in Chains and back again. It wasn’t until his guitar teacher turned him on to Blind Lemon...
by Kristin Palpini | Jun 27, 2016 | Articles, Columns, News, O Cannabis!
It’s summer! The season in which most Americans seek to do some deep unwinding by hopping in the car, on a plane, or a ship and getting away from it all. There is one thing millions of people aren’t seeking to leave behind, though, and it’s also headily conducive to a...
by Todd Crosset | Jun 27, 2016 | Articles, Letters from our Readers, News
We Had Our Own Brock Turner Situation in the ValleyThe sentencing of Brock Turner by California Judge Aaron Persky has sparked a national discussion of how we hold young drunk college men accountable for sexual assault. The general sentiment is that Persky was far...
by Advocate Staff | Jun 27, 2016 | Articles, News, News of the Weird
The Bunyadi opened in London in June for a three-month run as the world’s newest nude-dining experience, and, since it only seats 42, it now has a reservation waiting list of 40,000. Besides the nakedness, the Bunyadi creates “true liberation,” said...