Valley Advocate

Editorial: The slow progress of East-West rail

Valley Advocate January 29, 2020

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....

Stagestruck: The Shape of Silence

Valley Advocate February 18, 2020

In 1981, Ota Shogo had a vision: “A broken faucet center stage. A thin line of water from the spout. The sound of water....

Best Used car dealer 2020 – Nicky D’s

Valley Advocate March 26, 2020

Nicky D’s Best Used car dealer“You’re not in the car business unless you like cars,” says Nicky D’s co-owner Betty Duprey. She said she and...

Currently Open Local Dispensaries 2/25/21

Valley Advocate March 2, 2021

Amherst 1 Rise Holdings Inc. 169 Meadow St. Hours: Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Phone:...

Stagestruck: Postcards from the Cape, #2

Valley Advocate August 22, 2021

Here’s my second e-postcard from Cape Cod, following yesterday’s report on WHAT theater’s Nat Turner in Jerusalem. Up the Cape now, to Provincetown, where...

VA51-pickART-2016

Valley Advocate December 19, 2016

Here in Spirit Photographer Sandy Alpert’s new exhibition reveals a project she first began gathering imagery for in 1998. Back then, she writes, “I was...

Deported from a Sanctuary

Valley Advocate September 26, 2016

The debate over immigration reform isn’t new, but it’s taken center stage in the 2016 presidential campaign. Republican candidate Donald Trump has made it...