Valley Advocate
Defying God … and Trump
Partway through last Friday’s performance at West Springfield’s Majestic Theater, something unscripted, overdue, and quite wonderful happened.
The show was Peter Shaffer’s brilliant examination of...
Blaise’s Bad Movie Guide
Recently, I visited the William Cullen Bryant Homestead in Cummington where my sister and her family helped to lavishly decorate the rooms with Yuletide...
A Mid-winter Night’s Read
This weekend, Shakespeare & Company presents a Winter Studio Festival of Plays, five diverse readings as interpreted by five local directors. Works range from...
Reflecting on a Tragedy
The night of June 12, 2016, news of a horrific shooting unfolding in an Orlando gay nightclub sent shockwaves around the world, leaving collective...
Backtalk: Cheers to good reporting on charter schools, the environment and fake news
Love for the Advocate
Cheers to the Valley Advocate writers and staff for excellence in informative journalism covering topics with both local and universal...
News of the Weird: Too-Much-Reality TV
Russian producers are planning the so-far-ultimate survivors’ show — in the Siberian wilderness for nine months with temperatures as low as minus-40-degrees Fahrenheit, with...
Opioid addiction in Western Massachusetts: an Advocate Chat
Each week, the Advocate staff assembles for an AdvoChat, where we bat around thoughts on a subject in the news. The chat is lightly...
VOTE NOW in the 2017 Best Of the Valley Readers’ Poll!
Hi! Welcome to the Valley Advocate’s annual Best Of the Valley Readers’ Poll — the ranking of top local businesses according to readers. Every...
Opioid Deaths Grow by 70 Percent in Two Years
Between 2013 and 2015, the number of opioid-related deaths state- wide surged from 918 to 1,578 — an increase of over 70 percent in...
Julian’s Gift: Shutesbury sculptor plans to donate his land to conservation
The weird and wonderful artwork of Julian Janowitz only starts to reveal itself once visitors pull onto the long driveway of his Shutesbury home....
