Valley Advocate

A guide to summer cocktails from the garden It’s hard to imagine a better way to top off an afternoon in the garden than by...

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In 2015, the authorities in California documented 837 hate-crime incidents, charting a surge in offenses motivated by religious intolerance toward Muslims and Jews, while...

Schools’ standardized tests are often criticized as harmfully rigid, and in the latest version of the Texas Education Agency’s STAAR test, poet Sara...

Rachel Desmond had her first smoke when she was 16. For the next six years, marijuana was a big part of her life. “It was...

Upper Valley Music Festival – Saturday, April 29My wife is going to be participating in an all-day yoga event Saturday, leaving me with our...

Two plays in the Valley this weekend couldn’t be more different but at the same time so close to the bone of our current...

Your browser doesn’t support iframes. This month, the Advocate visited the Five Eyed Fox in Turners Falls, where co-owner Aric Binaco showed us how to make...

A Suicidal RobotOur D.C. office building got a security robot. It drowned itself.We were promised flying cars, instead we got suicidal robots. pic.twitter.com/rGLTAWZMjn— Bilal...

I often write in these pages about theater at the Five Colleges, all of which have robust degree programs and busy production seasons. But...