by James Heflin | May 6, 2015 | Arts, Leisure
East Longmeadow’s Victoria Aveyard left the Valley a few years ago to study screenwriting at the University of Southern California. Her time there led to meetings with agents, and through a fortuitous set of events, newfound connections led to a book contract. That...
by From Our Readers | Apr 28, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News
News of the Not So Weird The News of the Weird’s piece on the first gay wedding behind bars in Britain (“Number Crunching,” April 23-29, 2015) although groundbreaking for its prison first, is maybe not so weird after all. The two men, reportedly both serving time for...
by Hunter Styles | Apr 28, 2015 | Articles, Columns, Featured, News, The Uncanny Valley
“Curiouser and curiouser!” exclaimed Alice as she took her first steps into Wonderland. If she were making a trek through the Valley instead, we think she would say the same thing. Our little corner of the globe is chock full of odd people, secret places, and...
by Jack Brown | Apr 14, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film
In any field, a decade is a milestone — one of those moments when one can stop to look back and reflect on all the hard work that has gone into getting to that point in the journey. For a film festival, it’s particularly remarkable. There is just so much that goes...
by From Our Readers | Apr 14, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News
Drugs in the park not an isolated problem I want to say that I believe that “Get Out and Stay Out! 12 of the Pioneer Valley’s best outdoor spaces” (April 2-8, 2015) is a discouraging article written in the Advocate amongst a bunch of other parks and recreational areas...