by Kristin Palpini | Sep 29, 2015 | Arts, Music, News
Don’t Stop Believin’ in Classical Music The Springfield Symphony Orchestra will kick off the new season on Oct. 3 with an opening night reception at the Springfield Sheraton Hotel. Following the party, the orchestra will perform works by Dvořák, Sibelius, and Bartok....
by Amanda Drane | Sep 22, 2015 | News, Uncategorized
About a quarter of Springfield’s population has asthma — 21 percent of children and 18 percent of adults — and that’s nearly double the statewide average. As if that weren’t bad enough, those with asthma stand to suffer the most as climate change worsens, according to...
by Hunter Styles | Sep 22, 2015 | Articles, Featured, News, Wellness
Mariette Poginy sighs, pivots in her porch chair, and looks across Norwood Street in Greenfield, where the banging of hammers and the whining of drills emanate from the former Lunt Silversmiths factory. If all goes according to plan, the vacant and overgrown building...
by Hunter Styles | Sep 14, 2015 | Articles, Featured, Food + Booze, News, Taste-Off!
Drum roll please … After four rounds of blind taste-tests of cheese slices from 27 pizzerias across the Valley — from Greenfield to Springfield — the Advocate staff is ready to announce the winner of our summer slice smackdown. Without knowledge of where the...
by Gary Carra | Sep 8, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Music, Nightcrawler
Dennis Miller has a great line concerning the masses and social media: “Never have lives so less lived been so well chronicled.” While that idea is equal parts funny and true, the first annual Springfield Steampunk Festival was conceived in precisely the inverse...
