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Staff Picks: Check Out Springfield’s Metal Titans

Staff Picks: Check Out Springfield’s Metal Titans

by Advocate Staff | Oct 9, 2017 | Articles, Get Out With Staff Picks

City of Homes // THURSDAY-SATURDAY Springfield metal titans City of Homes are currently in the studio working on new music as well as music videos planned for each song released. 2018 will bring the busiest of years tour-wise for these guys, but in the meantime, you...
How to Help Puerto Rico while Trump Golfs

How to Help Puerto Rico while Trump Golfs

by Kristin Palpini | Oct 2, 2017 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News, Newsletter

Ripped apart by Hurricane Maria about two weeks ago, Puerto Rico is suffering from a severe lack of food, water, medicine, and shelter. Only 5 percent of the nation has electricity, according to the Associated Press. Federal aid is slow to arrive, people on the island...
O Cannabis: A How-To Guide to Harvesting Weed

O Cannabis: A How-To Guide to Harvesting Weed

by Kristin Palpini | Sep 25, 2017 | Articles, Columns, News, Newsletter, O Cannabis!

You can smell fall in the air — and in Massachusetts the aroma is a lot danker than usual. This October will mark the first major outdoor weed harvest since people ages 21 and up were given the green light to legally grow marijuana in Massachusetts on Dec. 15, 2016....
Bizarro Briefs: A Home for the Homeless?

Bizarro Briefs: A Home for the Homeless?

by Advocate Staff | Sep 25, 2017 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, News

A Home for the Homeless? Not having a place to live was not a good enough excuse to get a Turkish man out of house arrest. A 31-year-old homeless man living in Istanbul, was sentenced to house arrest for using and selling drugs in April. In need of a house to be...
What the Film? It’s Northampton Film Fest

What the Film? It’s Northampton Film Fest

by Kristin Palpini | Sep 25, 2017 | Articles, Film, News

A birdboy, 1900s Northampton, virtual realities, silly horror, and brimstone are among this year’s offerings at the Northampton Film Festival. Now in its third year under the leadership of Northampton Community Television, the annual multi-day event gets going...
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