by Jennifer Levesque | Apr 8, 2020 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Valley Show Girl
One day late last week I scrolled through Facebook to find memes to laugh at and maybe some new music to check out. I came across a video that three or more of my friends shared. “Oh yeah!” I got excited when I saw the preview image of the YouTube video of Agawam...
by Dave Eisenstadter | Feb 10, 2020 | Articles, Featured, News
The Advocate took home four awards at this year’s New England Better Newspaper Competition, including a first place award for a front page design by Jennifer Levesque. The winning design of the March 28 Valley Advocate earlier this year featured the cover story...
by Jennifer Levesque | Jan 9, 2020 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Music, Valley Show Girl
The first full moon of the new decade — the Wolf Moon — will start to howl at approximately 2:21 p.m. on Friday, January 10. Just so happens it’s also my birthday, maybe you’ll hear me howling at her from a distance wearing a crystal crown to welcome my 36th year on...
by Jennifer Levesque | Dec 24, 2019 | Articles, Clueless Parent, Columns, Featured
“He’ll eventually grow out of it, you have to give it some time,” my son’s pediatrician told his father and me at his physical when he was maybe about 5 years old. When my son transitioned from diapers to pull-ups at bedtime, it seemed that we would never transition...
by Jennifer Levesque | Dec 24, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Music, Valley Show Girl
Editor’s note: Advocate Associate Editor Chris Goudreau is a member of Leafies. The opening track to debut album Off Off Off Broadway from The Leafies You Gave Me tells a tale of a man who tends to the elephants and their dirty business at the circus. It is spoken...