Podcast: DJ Hip Socket talks 10 years of ecstatic dance in the Valley
Aaron Brando, a.k.a. DJ Hip Socket, has been practicing and running Pollinate Ecstatic Dance for 10 years. Ecstatic dance is a free form dance, and Pollinate works hard to establish a safe environment...
View ArticlePodcast: Making granola inspired by local music
What is the taste of local music? Tony “Tonez” Hall is finding out through making granola. Hall is co-owner of Holyoke-based Massachusetts Artisan Foods, wanted to make foods out of local products. One...
View ArticlePodcast: Jennifer Levesque on music in the Valley and 10 years of Advocate...
Jennifer Levesque brings the Valley’s music shows to life as the Advocate’s Valley Show Girl columnist. She’s also been designing the Advocate’s covers for more than 10 years. She tells us about her...
View ArticlePodcast: Beerhunter Hunter Styles and Beer Week co-founder Sally Noble talk beer
Advocate alumnus Hunter Styles, who still writes our Beerhunter column, and Sally Noble, co-founder of Western Mass Beer Week, tell us about the embarrassment of riches of beer we have in the Valley....
View ArticlePodcast: Undocumented immigrant Eduardo Samaniego discusses family separations
Eduardo Samaniego is an undocumented Hampshire College student turned immigrant rights activist at the Pioneer Valley Workers Center. Having arrived in Georgia at the age of 16, he graduated high...
View ArticleValley Advocate Podcast: Artist Dara Herman Zierlein on cutting plastic out...
Dara Herman Zierlein made a choice to have an affect on the planet by eliminating plastic from her life. Even despite that decision, she sometimes does use plastic. But she holds onto it rather than...
View ArticlePodcast: Beverly Ketch and Hannah Brookman talk about Greenfield art space...
Recently opened nonprofit artist space Looky Here in Greenfield is a place for workshops, art making, thrift shopping, and most things you can (or can’t) think of. Leaders Beverly Ketch and Hannah...
View ArticlePodcast: Ashfield Resident Tom Leue Invents Heating System that Runs on...
It wasn’t always smooth sailing for Ashfield inventor Tom Leue. When making his own brand of biodiesel, an alternative fuel made from plant matter, he accidentally set fire to his workshop and burned...
View ArticlePodcast: Local author Kathy Harrison discusses being prepared for your own...
Kathy Harrison doesn’t believe the zombies are coming to get us. But she does believe in being prepared for the worst. Harrison, of Cummington, just wrote her fifth book, called Prepping 101: 40 steps...
View ArticlePodcast: Maureen O’Reilly on the Holyoke Care Center college programs and...
We’re relaunching the Valley Advocate Podcast! Last year, we had a good run partnering with Amherst Media to produce video podcasts. Now we’re back both with audio-only and video versions! Up first is...
View ArticleValley Advocate Podcast: Growing your own cannabis and learning about dosing
Cannabis expert and O Cannabis! columnist Karima Rizk talks with editor Dave Eisenstadter about two of her most recent stories with the Valley Advocate, one about her own cannabis growing experience...
View ArticleValley Advocate Podcast – David Daley
Author of the book “Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America’s Democracy,” David Daley has also served as the editor of Salon.com. He now calls the Valley home and has written...
View ArticlePodcast: Lauren Simonds on being an old stoner in a brave new world of legal...
Lauren Simonds recently wrote a cover story for the Advocate, “An Old Stoner’s Guide to Modern Cannabis.” Here she sits down with editor Dave Eisenstadter on what research for the story was like, and...
View ArticleBizarro Briefs Podcast 6/26/19: Weird news from the week
Dave and Trumpy talk about this week’s weird news — stories about disembodied toes, Bill Cosby’s prison lecture series, bringing your daughter to a crime spree, and multiple stories about poop. Listen...
View ArticlePodcast: Jennifer Levesque talks about her experience with abortion and gun...
Jennifer Levesque, the Valley Advocate’s art director, also writes columns for us. Recently, she wrote two hard-hitting pieces: one about her personal experience with abortion, and the other about gun...
View ArticleBizarro Briefs Podcast: A popular Japanese poop museum, a late-night pizza...
Valley Advocate editor Dave Eisenstadter and Hits 94.3 DJ Trumpy talk about the weird news of the week. Bizarro Briefs this week can be read at...
View ArticlePodcast: Chris Goudreau on Valley residents responding to the border crisis
Chris Goudreau, associate editor of the Valley Advocate, speaks with editor Dave Eisenstadter about his recent cover story, “From the Valley to the Border: Sickening news on the treatment of migrants...
View ArticleBizarro Briefs Podcast: How many people are actually going to show up to this...
Editor Dave Eisenstadter and Trumpy of Hits 94.3 talk about the weird news of the week, including a proposed raid on Area 51 (are there really aliens there?), a mall sword fight using tiki torches, and...
View ArticlePodcast: Michael Kusek talks about his new marijuana magazine, Different Leaf
Michael Kusek, who used to be the marketing manager at the Valley Advocate and publisher of the now-closed Take Magazine, has just come out with his first issue of Different Leaf, a cannabis...
View ArticleBizarro Briefs Podcast: Seagull steals dog, asking someone out with a bomb...
Valley Advocate editor Dave Eisenstadter and Hits 94.3 host Trumpy talk about the week’s weird news in a podcast version of the Valley Advocate’s Bizarro Briefs section. Hear about five guys getting...
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