By Jarice Hanson For the Valley Advocate One of the most common terms in theater parlance is the “old chestnut.” This is a type of show that has been around a long time and often has themes, music, or ...

By Hannah Bevis For the Valley Advocate All hope seems lost. The hero, the crowd favorite, Pedro “The Shot-Caller” Dones, lies defeated in the center of a wrestling ring. The crowd lining the walls of ...

By Jennifer Levesque For the Valley Advocate Gold Dust, “In the Shade of the Living Light” Gold Dust originated as a solo project for Stephen Pierce, a local punk musician who wanted to step outside ...

By Monte Belmonte For the Valley Advocate The somewhat suspect science that has told us for many years that “a little wine is good for you” seems to be going the way of leeching. When it comes to ...

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This article was produced in collaboration with the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and is the first installment in a series about SWAT deployment and police militarization in Massachusetts.

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By Monte Belmonte For the Valley Advocate What is going on at Table & Vine in West Springfield? Given that you are reading a wine column, I assume you partake of the grape. Then you probably know that ...

David Wilson owner of Mystery on Main Street in Brattleboro, however, reasons more pragmatically. “Once we lost Walden and Borders, it was a little bit easier to make a living.” Mystery on Main Street ...

One must scratch beneath the surface to find out how important black history is in Springfield.

Davidow didn’t expect Hadge to recover. She and many others in the Wildflower community don’t even care for the word. “I felt like it tied me to this box of ill,” she explains, “and I didn’t want my ...

Inside the witch house: Horror filmmaking couple Aaron Fradkin and Victoria Fratz Fradkin set their most recent, ‘Beezel,’ in Northampton by Jennifer Levesque | Oct 18, 2024 ...