by Jennifer Levesque | Feb 18, 2020 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Music, Valley Show Girl
Arizona-based metal band Soulfly are coming back to our local music scene here in the Valley on their latest tour. They were here in 2014 when they played to a complete packed house at Maximum Capacity in Chicopee. The same venue under a different name, Poor Richards,...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 18, 2020 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
In 1981, Ota Shogo had a vision: “A broken faucet center stage. A thin line of water from the spout. The sound of water. A variety of people come by, approach, touch the water, and pass on. In this composition, silence breathes as living human time, not as form.” From...
by Yana Tallon-Hicks | Feb 17, 2020 | Articles, Columns, Featured, The V-Spot
Writer’s note: In this week’s column, we talk about childhood sexual abuse. Hi Yana, I’m a childhood sexual abuse survivor and I worked really hard to put my mental and emotional well-being back in order. I met my husband during the initial stages of my healing and he...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 12, 2020 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Brian Stanton, an aspiring actor, is doing a class exercise based on Oedipus Rex, and he freezes. The story of the Greek king who’s tragically ignorant of his real parents strikes too close to home. Brian, like Oedipus, was adopted, and like Oedipus he’s both eager...
by Advocate Staff | Feb 12, 2020 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News
Democrats, and truly all Americans outside of the president’s devoted base, have now been spending years trying to think up who best to challenge Trump to vote him out of office. The editorial staff at the Valley Advocate is unanimous. Our choice is Vermont Senator...
