Valley Advocate
Stagestruck: Changing Lives, One Play at a Time
When I was in California last month, I saw two plays by a small, adventurous theater company in Berkeley that I’d never heard of....
Staff Picks: Diva’s and Dwarves
Rock and Shock • Friday to Sunday
Rock and Shock is like Disneyland for horror film buffs who love their music heavy. It’s a horror...
Editorial: There Goes the Internet
Let me start by saying that I would avoid the internet if I could. It is creepy to think about huge corporations tracking each...
Live Music in the Valley for September
Sept. 8 — Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi, Academy of Music, 7:30 p.m. Americana favorite Giddens has a new album out, “They’re Calling Me Home,” which...
Stagestruck: This Weekend – Slowgirl & the Doctor
Two small-scale productions playing in the area this weekend have one thing in common. They both take place in the jungle. Apart from that,...
Reading His Own CIA File‘Left, Gay & Green’ autobiography a coming-of-age story amid turbulence
Born a red diaper baby in, of all places, Liberty, N.Y., and raised on a hardscrabble poultry farm owned by his American Communist parents,...
Cinemadope: Movies for winter vacation
Listen, I love my kids. I do. But it’s been a long winter around here. The holiday season was a terrible round-robin of stomach...
Saturday Live: Terence Blanchard and the E-Collective
One of the Greats
New Orleans native Terence Blanchard has become one of America’s most respected jazz musicians, working as a trumpeter, bandleader, composer, arranger,...
In wake of deadly fire, Holyoke expands alarm incentive program
It was a terrible way to start the New Year.Three people died and nearly 50 were displaced as a fire consumed the five-story building...
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Meditating with Marius
Artist Marius Sznajderman will be hosting his third solo art show at the Jewish Community of Amherst through April 30. Sznajderman focuses on...