Valley Advocate

I got pregnant this past summer after my birth control failed — I got to be part of that lucky 0.04 percent of IUD...

It was about a year ago that I stole away for a late night screening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the long-awaited “Episode VII”...

Almost all law enforcement agencies in America use the Scott Reagent field test when they discover powder that looks like cocaine, but the several...

Brass on the Tracks It seems Bob Dylan has a real pair of rolling stones on him. The guy wins this year’s Nobel Prize for...

Musical Dinosaurs As much as we first loved the music of screamy, crunchy, blissfully tormented alt-rockers Dinosaur Jr. — an act formed in Amherst in 1984...

I hadn’t flown on a plane in almost 30 years. So when my family and I took our first vacation trip to Florida, naturally...

Giant Talent. Tiny Stage. For more than 40 years now, the Advocate has covered politics, local news, and entertainment from an alternative angle. But nothing...

Filling a glass where Connecticut meets Mass Most night owls are easy when it comes to shifts in ambience, but I can’t say that many...

The Angel’s in the Details   The only thing more astounding than writer and illustrator Ruth Sanderson’s young adult and children’s books — which are painstakingly rendered...