4 days ago · By CAROLYN BROWN Staff Writer All the world’s a stage — but for two local comedians, their stage is a green and black bus. The Chuckling Charlie Comedy Bus, the creation of Northampton comedian and comedy producer Tim Lovett, has brought laughter to …

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Apr 19, 2024 · “I’ve had so many people tell me ‘I bought a guitar and began learning to play because I wanted something to do’” during the pandemic, said Tobey Sol LaRoche, a singer and songwriter who since fall 2021 has hosted a weekly open mic at Wurst Haus, the Northampton German-style restaurant and bar.

Oct 27, 2023 · Tricky Dick’s main purpose was to imprison some of his most vocal political opponents: hippies and Black people. “We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or (B)lack,” Nixon’s chief of staff John Ehrlichmann later admitted, “but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and (B)lacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both …

Jan 26, 2024 · STAFF PHOTO / DAN LITTLE Clarinetist and saxophonist Evan Arntzen, who moved to the Valley a few years ago from New York City, will launch a new music series at Gombo Nola Kitchen & Oyster Bar in Northampton, starting Feb. 2, 10 and 16.

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Dec 27, 2024 · Roger Patnode, known to generations of community and professional theater goers, passed away on Oct. 29 at the age of 90. Popular with audiences who attended multiple theaters in Hamden and Hampshire Counties, Roger acted in shows for over 60 years, and was familiar to many through television commercials and voice-over work.

Apr 30, 2020 · Yet more and more blacks were registered to vote, and a solid black working class and middle class began to emerge in Wilmington. By 1880, Zucchino writes, Wilmington, a shipbuilding center along the Cape Fear River in southeastern North Carolina, had the highest proportion of black residents — close to 60 percent — of any Southern city.

Jun 28, 2024 · By Robin Goldstein For the Valley Advocate When voters vote to legalize weed, their intent is to legalize weed. And yet, in states across America, devils lurk in the details of how weed is regulated. Some of these devils have turned out to be so monstrous that they have frustrated the very purpose of legalization, […]