by Jennifer Levesque | Mar 7, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Music, Valley Show Girl
I’ve been hibernating the past couple of months. I just bought a house and have been focused mainly on that. The closest I’ve been to live music is listening to my vinyl — live — in my living room. I broke out of my hibernation recently, however, and attended my first...
by Advocate Staff | Mar 7, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Staff Picks
Imo Nse Imeh: 17 Years Boy: Epilogue // Through March 15 Visual artist Dr. Imo Nse Imeh’s latest project “17 Years Boy: Epilogue” is now on display at Readywipe Gallery in Holyoke. His work is remarkable and powerful and absolutely beautiful. The exhibition stems from...
by Hunter Styles | Mar 6, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News
The Daily Hampshire Gazette, one of the oldest newspapers in America, printed its first pages in the summer of 1786. From the start, things were tense in the Western Mass communities it covered. The front page of the earliest surviving issue of the Gazette reports...
by Dave Eisenstadter | Mar 6, 2019 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News
This past week, the state Legislature’s Harm Reduction Commission — the advisory group looking at solutions to the drug epidemic — released its report. As expected, the commission, which is made up of current and former drug users as well as doctors, government...
by Dave Eisenstadter and Chris Goudreau | Mar 6, 2019 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, Featured, News
Polly wants a hit of opium The farmers who grow fields of poppies in India to produce opium, which is sold on the medical market, often have to contend with seasons of uneven rainfall — but there’s another unpredictable factor that has been wreaking havoc on the crop...
