By Hannah Bevis For the Valley Advocate On most days, Andrew Curran, better known as his drag persona Magnolia Masquerade, is ...

By Jarice Hanson For the Valley Advocate Plays about difficult subjects, like the consequences of personal actions, politics, ...

“The Art of Grace Lin: Meeting a Friend in an Unexpected Place” will run through Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026, at the Eric Carle Museum. The show, which includes exhibition text and closed captioning on a ...

The Holyoke Paper Festival will be on Saturday, June 7, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at De La Luz Soundstage at LightHouse.The day’s events include workshops and sessions on crayon art, silkscreen ...

By MICKEY RATHBUN For the Valley Advocate John Smith likes it when people stop outside his house, a lovely Carpenter Gothic on a quiet street in Florence, to peek at his garden through the fence. “I ...

In “The Raider,” just published by Alfred A. Knopf, Platt offers the first full study of Carlson, who grew up in New England, left home at 14 to make it on his own, and served both in the Marines and ...

On Sunday, a group of about 20 people gathered at Veterans Field in Northampton to set up a new team of queer cheerleaders who would perform at queer sporting events in the Pioneer Valley. The sky was ...

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In Hadge’s case, she wasn’t in a communicative space, so she spent hours with a staff member quietly putting together a ping pong table. Others I spoke to marveled at being able to do their laundry ...

Both of the owners are also established businessmen themselves outside of Wemelco: CEO Volkan Polatol currently owns Mulino’s in Northampton and owned Bishop’s Lounge for 14 years pre-pandemic, and ...

Going out with friends can be challenging when clashing tastes in food make it impossible to choose a restaurant. But for Abandoned Building Brewery in Easthampton, the solution to this predicament is ...