by Jack Brown | Mar 3, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film, Leisure
I’m not sure exactly when it was that I realized that my mom wasn’t quite like most of the other moms in our neighborhood. And from the outside, at least when I was still a boy, maybe she didn’t strike others as different, either: husband, two kids, house, a station...
by Gary Carra | Mar 3, 2015 | Arts, Columns, Music
There’s an old line about the issue label types often dub the “sophomore jinx.” And that is, “You have your whole lifetime to write your first album, a matter of months for the follow up.” One need only pick up Dead Ringer, the successor to Meatloaf’s epic Bat Out Of...
by Advocate Staff | Mar 3, 2015 | Astrology, Leisure, Wellness
ARIES (March 21-April 19): To depict what lay beyond the limits of the known world, medieval mapmakers sometimes drew pictures of dragons and sea serpents. Their images conveyed the sense that these territories were uncharted and perhaps risky to explore. There were...
by Yana Tallon-Hicks | Mar 3, 2015 | Columns, The V-Spot, Wellness
Hi Yana, After how many months of no symptoms can one safely assume he or she is free of sexually transmitted diseases? I’m in a monogamous relationship right now with someone who’s just as healthy as I am, and we’re wondering how long until we can be reasonably sure...
by Chris Rohmann | Mar 3, 2015 | Stagestruck
“It’s an exciting time for art-house cinemas,” says Carol Johnson, executive director of the Amherst Cinema Arts Center. What she’s enthusing about isn’t movies, however, but plays. Valley theatergoers’ access to professional stage productions by global companies is...