by Chris Rohmann | Aug 20, 2013 | Stage
Jacob’s Pillow Dance concludes its season this weekend with a look back to its roots and a forward-looking performance representative of the genre’s future. Although its founder is long gone, the Martha Graham Dance Company carries on the legacy of that...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 20, 2013 | Stage
Daffy Duck is hugging a six-year-old who’s half his height. The flaky fowl has jumped off the screen and onto the midway at Six Flags New England theme park, where he cavorts daily with Bugs, Tweety Pie, Foghorn, Marvin the Martian and other celluloid pals from...
by Tom Vannah | Aug 20, 2013 | News
It was folly to think we’d ever see the tolls come down on the MassPike. But if the denizens of Beacon Hill are determined to keep picking motorists’ pockets to pay for a road that was paid off decades ago, it would have been nice of them to at least let a...
by Advocate staff | Aug 20, 2013 | News
Talking Trash at the Statehouse By Erin McDaniel More than 30 years after the hotly opposed passage of the Massachusetts Bottle Bill, advocates on both sides of the issue are still arguing about its proper application amid a changing beverage market. The...
by Advocate readers | Aug 20, 2013 | News
Where Are the G-Men of Yore? When I was a boy, the world seemed to be a different place. Sometimes I think it is because I was young and naïve, and other times I think it was just easier to determine good from evil. The FBI was one of those agencies that seemed...