Valley Advocate
V-Spot: My long-distance partner doesn’t want video chat sex
Hi Yana,
My partner and I are temporarily in a long-distance relationship and he’s expressed discomfort with video chat sex. It sounds like it’s mostly...
News of the Weird: Even Baking Soda is Dangerous
Almost all law enforcement agencies in America use the Scott Reagent field test when they discover powder that looks like cocaine, but the several...
Beerhunter: Turnpike Two-Stop
Two worthwhile breweries off exit 9The naturalist John Muir once observed that “when one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it...
Stagestruck: Letters to Kamala
The election of Kamala Harris as the first woman Vice President of the United States, not to mention the first African American and the...
Editorial: Investigating the treatment of asylum seekers in the U.S.
This week, the Advocate begins a three-part series by Luis Fieldman about asylum seekers who have made it to western Massachusetts, and those who...
Podcast: Jonathan Jenner and Hope on the Western Mass Asylum Support Network
In continuation of Luis Fieldman’s “Seeking Asylum in Western Mass” series, part 2 of the series explores those in the region who are helping...
Welcome to the Valley! Now What?
You’ve checked into your dorm and met your roommate, scoped out the campus and located the halls where you’ll have your first classes. It’s...
Monte Belmonte Wines: The wine world is your oyster
Why, then, the world’s mine oyster, Which I, with sword, will open.
— William Shakespeare from The Merry Wives of Windsor
Scott Soares’s world is an...
VIDEO: Chris Goudreau on Valley Advocate Sessions Friday
Our very own Valley Advocate staff writer – Chris Goudreau – is this week’s Sessions performer. Goudreau sings with an operatic sounding voice and has...
Stagestruck: But Is It Theater? – The Year in Zoom
Does theater, by definition, require an audience’s physical presence in a shared space with live actors? Is viewing the video record of a live...
