by Dave Eisenstadter and Chris Goudreau | Jun 19, 2018 | Featured, News, Newsletter
The long-awaited moment is nearly here: marijuana will be legal to sell in the state of Massachusetts as of July 1 — with a license. But a question that has arisen for many long-term users of marijuana is: what is going to happen to the unlicensed, illegal marijuana...
by Dave Eisenstadter | Jun 19, 2018 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News, Newsletter
I’m angry these days. I try to hide it as best I can, but the piling up of atrocities committed by the Trump administration is taking its toll, and I doubt I’m the only one concealing a bubbling rage as I go about my day. But the recently-implemented “zero tolerance”...
by Advocate Staff | Jun 18, 2018 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Newsletter, Podcast, The Beerhunter
Advocate alumnus Hunter Styles, who still writes our Beerhunter column, and Sally Noble, co-founder of Western Mass Beer Week, tell us about the embarrassment of riches of beer we have in the Valley. Hear about Sally’s beer beginnings and the start of Western...
by Jack Brown | Jun 18, 2018 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured, Newsletter
Something I’ve come to love about Father’s Day weekend is my own dad’s profound disinterest in the world of the internet. He doesn’t give a fig for Facebook, has no email address, and if he were ever involved with something viral it would be cause for a trip to the...
by Will Meyer | Jun 15, 2018 | Articles, Basemental, Columns, Featured, Music, Newsletter
Wendy Eisenberg has made a name for herself in the amalgamated DIY, jazz, and improvisation scenes in New England and beyond. Coming via Rochester and then Boston, Eisenberg now lives in Amherst. Eisenberg has a variety of tactics in her artist’s toolbox. Among them...
