by Dave Eisenstadter | Jan 29, 2020 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News
With recent success in the expansion of North-South rail, in some ways it feels like there is momentum finally building for an East-West line. However, Gov. Charlie Baker seemed to throw some cold water on that last week during the opening of a handicapped-accessible...
by Advocate Staff | Jan 29, 2020 | Articles, Featured, Podcast
Writer Chris Goudreau wrote a recent piece on local independent record labels in the Valley. Those include Feeding Tube Records in Florence, Disques de Lapin in Brattleboro, and Rub Wrongways Records in Northampton. Listen here: You can hear more of the Valley...
by Advocate Staff | Jan 28, 2020 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, Featured
Lost your thumb? Use your big toe A British cobbler was distraught after a freak accident last year — his thumb was caught in some machinery and severed completely. The man thought his work as a cobbler, which he is passionate about, was over. Instead, he agreed to an...
by Chris Goudreau | Jan 28, 2020 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Music, The CDs You Gave Me
The charred remains of a building smolder in patches of fire as gray smoke drifts over autumnal treetops. That image is cut, and layered multiple times on top of one another for the album cover art of Ghost Things, by Northampton-based Americana-infused indie rock...
by Jack Brown | Jan 27, 2020 | Articles, Arts, Cinemadope, Featured, Film
Ever since I was first introduced to the tiny hot dog, I have been an appetizer man. Those delectable little morsels — a bite or two at most — can contain a density of flavor that many full meals can only wish to attain. And while many are served ahead of an...