Valley Advocate

By STEVE PFARRER Staff Writer If you go to a milonga, or social dance, to do tango dancing in Buenos Aires, you’ll likely be doing it...

By DOMENIC POLI STAFF WRITER To all of you out there reading this online or in print, there is something I desperately need to confess: For...

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By Jennifer Levesque For the Valley AdvocateLocal musician Chris Croteau took a musical hiatus to focus on parenthood, but is now back with an album...

The first time lifelong Holyoke resident Damaris Aponte sold marijuana, she was 14 and growing up in a city deeply impacted by the so-called...

By STEVE PFARRER Staff Writer As a painter, he’s got a great eye for color, lots of energy, and a self-taught technique that lends itself to...

By DON STEWART For the Advocate COURTESY CLARK ART INSTITUTEGustave Le Gray’s 1856 image of a “Brig on the Water” wowed viewers at the time, given...

Editor’s note: The Advocate is pleased to introduce a new theater writer. Jarice Hanson was a professor in the Department of Communication at UMass...

By STEVE PFARRER Staff Writer July was a challenging month for outdoor music shows, with the heavy rain that flooded local farms and roads also washing...

By STEVE PFARRER Staff Writer “The Transition,” spray paint on canvas by Ryan Murray, is one of the works by BIPOC artists that Forbes Library has...