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Editorial: Performing at a 24-hour ‘413 Says #ClosetheCamps’ event

Editorial: Performing at a 24-hour ‘413 Says #ClosetheCamps’ event

by Chris Goudreau | Jul 31, 2019 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News

For 24 continuous hours this past weekend, musicians, theater groups, comedians, jugglers, kirtan singers, yoga enthusiasts, and a long list of other artists in the Pioneer Valley came together to say, “Close the Camps” along the southwest border, where thousands of...
Bizarro Briefs: Hair farms for the super rich

Bizarro Briefs: Hair farms for the super rich

by Advocate Staff | Jul 31, 2019 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, Featured, News

Hair farms for the super rich Furthering the fight against baldness, scientists have determined that a combination of stem cell growth and 3-D printing may hold the solution to a problem that has long vexed companies trying to make money off of people going bald – how...
‘Resisting a Culture that Says I Don’t Belong’: Local joins group of large-bodied women to hike Kilimanjaro

‘Resisting a Culture that Says I Don’t Belong’: Local joins group of large-bodied women to hike Kilimanjaro

by Miasha Lee | Jul 30, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News, Wellness

A Franklin County native along with 19 other plus-size women known as the “Curvy Kili Crew” recently hiked one of the largest mountains in the world: Mount Kilimanjaro. For seven days, Eve Bogdanove of Greenfield and her companions traveled the Rongai Route, an...
Monte Belmonte Wines: The Wines Traveling Musicians Want For Free

Monte Belmonte Wines: The Wines Traveling Musicians Want For Free

by Monte Belmonte | Jul 30, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Monte Belmonte Wines

My day job, or rather my MORNING job, is to wake up frightfully early and spend time inside a little box in certain Valley people’s kitchens or cars. I am the morning host at 93.9 The River/WRSI. Back in 1986, WRSI celebrated its fifth birthday party with music from...
Cinemadope: Musical journeys small and large

Cinemadope: Musical journeys small and large

by Jack Brown | Jul 29, 2019 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured, Film

All of us have those sounds that touch some deep part of our souls, triggering memories and emotions that might otherwise lay dormant. Like scents tied to childhood — the smell of a censer for lapsed Catholics, or the perfume of a grandmother gone too soon — sounds...
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