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Nature, From Scratch Joe Smith has a common name but a not-too-common job: forester, slash artist. By day, he’s working out in the woods, putting...

Every morning at Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth II’s first order of business is to meet with her hairdresser. She drinks from bone china, eats...

The Housatonic River in Massachusetts and Connecticut has been polluted by suspected human carcinogen – and known cancer-causing agent in animals – since the...

If you get up real close to the New England Treatment Access medical marijuana dispensary in Northampton, you can smell the earthy aroma of...

Enough Disappointment to Go Around I was sorely dismayed by the publication of your editorial as if Hillary Clinton had won (“Between the Lines:...

The Valley Advocate is starting up a new feature: chats! Our inaugural chat will be about mixing family and politics during Thanksgiving. If you...

While “democracy” in most of America means electing representatives to run government, on Nov. 8 in San Francisco it also expected voters to decide...

Watch officially shared footage of a recent live collaboration on “Fade Into You.”

In this time of national division and upheaval, we can be forgiven for craving a little feelgood. And what feels better than a good...

This Rough Magic   Lost lovers of Shakespeare must labor each year — for centuries, apparently — against the preconception that the Bard’s work is boring. Surely,...