Valley Advocate

It’s been a long year, but how’s this for a bit of uplifting news – shows are coming back, albeit slowly at first. Here...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the U.S., the day after Thanksgiving typically features a spectacular shopping orgy. On “Black Friday,” stores sell their products...

For the past three-plus years, I’ve been the parent of an amazing child. In a couple months time, I will be a parent of...

This week’s Advocate Sessions performer is Black Pyramid, a psychedelic war metal band with doom and stoner metal influences. Check out the band’s Advocate...

By Yana Tallon-Hicks I recently began a new relationship and am something of a late bloomer (I’m in my mid-20s), so I have very little...

In the Socks of Fox If you ever watch the Fox network and think — are these guys on something? — turns out some...

Berkshire East Best Local ski areaSkiing on the mountain in Charlemont has a long past that includes both Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody and Massachusetts Senator...

In Sickness and in Health   On June 5, 1981, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a report describing cases of a rare...

Just about the only things Shakespeare & Company’s two current productions have in common are fresh air and trees. The Bard’s sun-and-shadow comedy Much...

Kyle Abraham, who calls his company A.I.M (Abraham In Motion) and dedicates his work to “issues of social and historical significance” and “identity in...