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JJ Slater on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage

JJ Slater on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage

by Advocate Staff | Apr 3, 2020 | Advocate Sessions, Articles, Featured, Music

This week’s Advocate Sessions performer is singer-songwriter JJ Slater, who writes original music that blends together folk-rock and psychedelic pop with jazzy chord progressions. Interview with JJ Slater:
Educators rising to remote learning challenges

Educators rising to remote learning challenges

by Chris Goudreau | Apr 1, 2020 | Articles, Featured, News

Schools across the state, country and the globe are closed amid the coronavirus pandemic. Here in Massachusetts, though schools are slated to reopen at the beginning of May, they’re now closed per Gov. Charlie Baker’s order. In the meantime, local educators in the...
We needed unemployment reform years ago, and there’s a crisis now

We needed unemployment reform years ago, and there’s a crisis now

by Dave Eisenstadter | Apr 1, 2020 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News

I’m sad to report that I was among those laid off last week by Valley Advocate parent company Newspapers of New England, which also owns the Daily Hampshire Gazette and the Greenfield Recorder. As you can see, I’m still here writing the Advocate’s...
Fred Cracklin’s ‘Anxiety Kinship’ — A Mad Science Experiment Gone Right 

Fred Cracklin’s ‘Anxiety Kinship’ — A Mad Science Experiment Gone Right 

by Chris Goudreau | Apr 1, 2020 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Music, The CDs You Gave Me

Western Mass-based experimental/math rock duo Fred Cracklin takes its name from a live action character played by Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore in the 1990s animated science fiction comedy “Space Ghost Coast to Coast.” The series is set up as a surreal...
The V-Spot: Polyamorous During a Pandemic

The V-Spot: Polyamorous During a Pandemic

by Yana Tallon-Hicks | Apr 1, 2020 | Articles, Columns, Featured, The V-Spot

Hi Yana, I’m writing to see if you have any advice for the polyamorous community during the COVID-19 outbreak. While there aren’t many cases in Hampshire County [as of writing this question on March 20], my partner and I have decided to work from home and...
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