Valley Advocate
The Beerhunter: Vanished Valley Brewing Company in Ludlow
Local homebrewer Josh Britton scales up with a low-key launch
On quiet winter days between reports of Valley craft beer happenings, your friendly neighborhood Beerhunter...
Lasagna Gardening: The Easy Way to Start a Garden Right Now
One of the first hurdles to planting a garden is the land: often hard, rocky, compact, dusty, weedy, and dry.Tilling the soil — churning...
On Exhibit: It’s Me, Eloise — The Voice of Kay Thompson and the Art...
El on Wheels
Before President 45 ruined our fantasies about living the carefree life atop a skyscraper, America had Eloise, the children’s book series from the...
Q&A with Pasqualina Azzarello, the New Face of Easthampton City Arts
In advance of the 1984 Summer Olympics, the city of Los Angeles commissioned 200 public murals. Pasqualina Azzarello remembers that transformation vividly. On hot...
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Thursday 3/2
Bereavement Support Group: 2-4 p.m. South Hadley Senior Center, Dayton St., South Hadley. (413) 887-5552, [email protected].
A Conversation with Chris Bachelder and Jacqueline Woodson:...
The Body Follows
Many people would bend over backwards to avoid performing stunts in front of an audience. But Ariana Ferber-Carter — a professional contortionist and circus...
A Contortionist’s Journey Around the World — and Back to Brattleboro
The Body Follows: Inside the mind of professional contortionist Ariana Ferber-Carter
Many people would bend over backwards to avoid performing stunts in front of an...
The Head and the Heart Plays Northampton
Signs of Light
Seattle indie folk band The Head and the Heart formed in 2009, and their third album Signs of Light, released this past fall,...
In Concert: Weird Love Noise
Spending Valentine’s Day with Thurston Moore and friends
A distant droning noise fills the cold air as I get out of my car in a very...
Stagestruck: Woman on the Edge
For a 19th-century male, Henrik Ibsen was quite the feminist. His best-known play, A Doll’s House, ends with one of the theater’s most famous sound...
