Valley Advocate
Back Talk: Hampshire College Brings Back the Flag
Forced to Fly a Flag?
Editor’s Note: This letter is in response to Hampshire College’s recent decision to stop flying the American flag on campus....
How to Spot Fake News
There is nothing more cynical than fake news. The entire concept is to play readers for suckers, manipulating the foundation of reality in exchange...
Nightcrawler: Saying Adios to El Tony Cruz Reyes
Longtime radio personality Mike “Haze” DeJesus’s tale of his first meeting with Springfield-area rockers Hypnotic Kick smacks of a tacky joke set up.
“Eighteen years ago,...
Tuesday: Smith Poetry Reading Benefits Adult Education
Them, Verses, Us
The Center for New Americans is a non-profit adult education center for the Valley’s immigrant, refugee, and migrant communities, with sites in Northampton,...
“Don’t be a chump reader”: an Advocate Chat on fake news
Continuing our weekly chats, the Advocate staff tackled the topic of fake news, that scourge to lovers of truth everywhere! The chat has been...
Stagestruck: Seeking Refuge
You wouldn’t expect to find close connections between the Sinai desert, urban Serbia and the Appalachian mountains, but a new play by UMass theater...
“The Hate Project” by Steve Cole reveals hate groups all around us
They form an army you might meet in a nightmare. Nearly one thousand glazed white figurines dressed in symbols of hatred — such as...
BTL: The North Dakota Pipeline Protest Asks What’s More Valuable, Water or Oil?
Protesters clumped together like Gore-Tex penguins on the North Dakota, bridge.
On Nov. 18, hundreds of people congregated at Backwater Bridge, in the path...
The V-Spot: I’m a Queer Woman in a Hetero Marriage
I’ve been thinking about writing to you for a long time. My husband and I are about to celebrate 11 years as a...
STRUT is Easthampton’s New, All-Inclusive Fashion Show
Everything Goes
Calling all designers, makers, artists, stylists, fashionistas, tattooers, dandies, body painters, costumers, and retailers: next Thursday, Easthampton turns all of its fashion dials...