Valley Advocate
Stagestruck: Torch Songs
MIFA, the Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts, is a Holyoke-based venture that’s working to restore the city’s venerable Victory Theatre as a regional...
Staff Picks: Wet’suwet’en Nation fundraiser, Wishbone Zoë, Shelter Me: In Times of Need, and...
Fundraiser for The Wet’suwet’en Nation at Majestic Saloon // FRIDAY
The Majestic Saloon and Lupinewood, a trans sanctuary in Greenfield, are holding a fundraiser for...
Stagestruck: Happier Valley Comedy – Joy in the unexpected
Scott Braidman is giving me a tour of his workplace, the Hadley headquarters of Happier Valley Comedy, of which he’s the artistic director. It’s...
Thursday to Sunday: The Back Porch Festival Returns
A Porch to be Reckoned With
Most Valley radio listeners have spent at least a little time on Jim Olsen’s back porch. For years the...
What about us?
During the past several years, it is no secret that as a nation, we have become more aware and enlightened to the plights of...
Black Plays Matter: Spurred by crisis, area theaters step up
2020’s Summer of Rage following the murder of George Floyd — another “last straw” in response to police killings of Black men — gave...
‘Fat Feminist’ Lindy West, Author of Shrill, Reads in South Hadley Saturday
The word “shrill” makes some people want to instinctively cover their ears, but Lindy West decided to make it the title to her 2016...
Coming Out to Your Husband
When she was 37, Edie Daly came out as a lesbian. It was 1974, in the suburbs of New York City. Firmly ensconced in...
Stagestruck: Plain Jane
Jane Eyre may be the most-adapted of 19th-century English novels, and that’s saying something, in a field shared with Austen and Dickens. The Wikipedia...
Cinemadope: Dear Genre
Genre films are a bit like the snack food of the cinematic universe. Something of a guilty pleasure, often consumed late at night, and...
