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Western Mass Beer Week is Back! Here’s what’s happening

Western Mass Beer Week is Back! Here’s what’s happening

by Hunter Styles | Jun 5, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Food Booze and Beyond, News, The Beerhunter

In the Advocate’s monthly craft beer column The Beerhunter, I keep my finger on the pulse of local craft beer business. The column began in 2014. From day one, I had plenty of little dramas and lucky breaks to cover, from small-business zoning woes to creative...
Bizarro Briefs: Swooping to the Rescue

Bizarro Briefs: Swooping to the Rescue

by Dave Eisenstadter and Chris Goudreau | Jun 5, 2019 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, Featured, News

Swooping to the rescue The robot-controlled cameras that film us at all times waiting for us to mess up so we can be fined or arrested have spawned a new genre of Bizarro Brief: the bird photobomb as savior. One such 1984-like surveillance device in western Germany...
O Cannabis: Finding Your Perfect Dose

O Cannabis: Finding Your Perfect Dose

by Karima Rizk | Jun 4, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Food Booze and Beyond, O Cannabis!

On May 20, three adults collapsed in a Cape Cod restaurant after trying edibles for the first time and apparently took a relatively high dose. One woman fainted and her two companions were soon lying semi-conscious on the ground. While the unfortunate incident is not...
Basemental: DIY Dystopia — A tech start-up sees house shows as ‘the next big thing’

Basemental: DIY Dystopia — A tech start-up sees house shows as ‘the next big thing’

by Will Meyer | Jun 4, 2019 | Articles, Basemental, Columns, Featured, Music

Imagine it’s the year 2020 and you get invited by a friend to a local house show. The catch: you don’t know who the performers will be and you don’t know where it will be located until the day of the show. You must apply in advance to even purchase a ticket and then...
Podcast: Maureen O’Reilly on the Holyoke Care Center college programs and trash buster John Coughlin

Podcast: Maureen O’Reilly on the Holyoke Care Center college programs and trash buster John Coughlin

by Advocate Staff | Jun 3, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News, Podcast

We’re relaunching the Valley Advocate Podcast! Last year, we had a good run partnering with Amherst Media to produce video podcasts. Now we’re back both with audio-only and video versions! Up first is guest Maureen O’Reilly, who talks about her...
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