By Carolyn Brown For the Valley Advocate Growing up in western Massachusetts, local musician and “artivist” Indë Francis, who performs mononymously as Indë, lacked role models who could help them ...

The Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame will hold the induction banquet for the Class of 2026 from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, March 27, at Eagle Brook Country Club in Geneva. Susan S. Starrett will receive the ...

We're picking out our favourite Leonard Cohen album of all time 'Songs of Love and Hate' as we celebrate it's 50th ...

Tension: The publishing industry celebrates women as its most important audience while simultaneously reducing them to a ...

Politics / The critics of “performative politics” misunderstand something fundamental: Democracy survives only when citizens perform it. Ned Resnikoff If you’ve spent any time online over the past one ...

It is 2am. You went to bed at 11. But somewhere between closing your eyes and falling asleep, you wondered how deep the ...

An eyewitness recalls the fraught encounter between a precocious American college student and a titan of German literature.

Netflix’s most-viewed TV shows of the past week are the very definition of a mixed bag. It’s not a real, tangible bag, of course. It’s a metaphorical one. But it’s certainly really quite mixed. This ...

For writers hoping to Negotiate an Audio Rights agreement without Getting Fleeced, understanding the financial structure, ...

Gothic cinema is having a resurgence right now, but "Wuthering Heights" and "The Bride!" might have ruined the party.

Yishan Li on her career across four comics markets, drawing strong women, cultural storytelling, and the webtoon that changed her life.

A high school teacher describes how she teaches her students that disciplinary literacy is more than ‘fancy’ vocabulary.