by Amanda Drane | Feb 4, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Wellness
“Get your spots ready for butterfly,” Barre and Pole owner Tekla Kostek tells her students during a pole tricks class last Wednesday. The eight women stand two-to-a-pole and watch as Kostek demonstrates. Kostek positions herself next to the pole. She bends her right...
by Amanda Drane | Feb 4, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Featured, News, Scene Here
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by Amanda Drane | Feb 4, 2015 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Food + Booze, Madame Barfly
We’ve all heard the rumors about the havoc cheap booze can wreak, but is that even true? Can you drink inexpensive alcohol all night without head-pounding, toilet-hugging consequences? The downside to drinking cheap alcohol is considerable: principal among the...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 4, 2015 | Stagestruck
The Royal National Theatre’s NT Live initiative beams theater performances live (or time zone delayed) via satellite from its London stages, and occasionally from other British theaters, to cinema screens around the world. Now the popular series has hopped the pond to...
by Kristin Palpini | Feb 4, 2015 | Between the Lines, News, Wellness
I had my first cigarette when I was 13; stole it from my dad’s pack of menthol Pall Malls and smoked it on the back porch. I had heard cigarettes were a good way to relax. I took a few puffs. The flavor was all ash and prickly mint. For a moment a rushing dizziness...