by Advocate Staff | Jun 27, 2018 | Articles, Music, Newsletter, Valley Advocate Sessions
Asia Mei is a Northampton-based singer-songwriter with virtuoso piano and a dash of 1990s alternative rock. Check out a teaser video for her Advocate Sessions video, which will be released this Friday.
by Yana Tallon-Hicks | Jun 26, 2018 | Columns, Featured, Newsletter, The V-Spot
Hi Yana, I want to avoid having an emotional (or sexual) affair without ending a friendship. I have a friend who I really like, and am attracted to, but he’s married. I’ve known him for a couple of years, and we always hang out with his wife, who I...
by Monte Belmonte | Jun 26, 2018 | Columns, Featured, Food Booze and Beyond, Monte Belmonte Wines, Newsletter
Massachusetts is no Bordeaux. It’s no Napa. Perhaps with global warming, someday it will rival the great wine regions of the world, which is why I keep a tire fire burning in my backyard at all times. But given the limitations of our climate, are our burgeoning...
by Chris Goudreau | Jun 26, 2018 | Featured, Music, Newsletter
Klezmer music is by its nature a joyous high energy form of music, but what do you get when you add in Mediterranean melodies, Romanian surf tunes, covers of cop show theme songs, and a funk groove? You get Boston-based band Klezperanto. They’re set to play...
by Dave Eisenstadter | Jun 21, 2018 | Featured, News, Newsletter
While the Legislature was debating raising the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour in a ‘grand bargain’ bill passed by the House and Senate on Wednesday, Haymarket Cafe owner Peter Simpson was increasing his lowest paid workers wages to $15.50....
