by Chris Rohmann | Feb 10, 2020 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
The name of the Performance Project’s youth program, First Generation, comes from its entrance requirement. All the participants identify as being a “first” in their family – the first to grow up in this country, to graduate high school or go to college, to be...
by Luis Fieldman | Jan 3, 2020 | Articles, Featured, Wellness
Members of the Spanish-speaking group Cuidadores Unidos meet once a month to discuss the challenges of being caregivers to family members or friends with a dementia-related disease. At the Holyoke Senior Center, members of Cuidadores Unidos are able to share their...
by Jack Brown | Dec 10, 2019 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured
When well-known activist Frances Crowe died this August at her home in Northampton, the loss rippled through the town in a way few passings do. One hundred years old at the time of her death, Crowe had touched generations of Valley residents — changing some minds,...
by Jennifer Levesque | Nov 27, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Valley Show Girl
Valley musician Eric Cunha started playing drums when he was a baby. For one of his first Christmases he got a Muppet’s drumkit that initiated it all. He would end up getting other toy drum sets throughout the years until he got his first real kit when he was 10. In...
by Advocate Staff | Nov 14, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Music, Staff Picks
Ona Canoa EP Release Show at the Shea Theater // SATURDAY Advocate Sessions alumni and folk trio Ona Canoa will be releasing their first record this Saturday, a debut extended play (EP) titled “Good Dream.” With that milestone in the bag, they’ll be celebrating the...
