by Advocate Staff | Nov 30, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Music, Stage
Super Troupe Pilobolus Dance Theatre has been praised with innumerable adjectives over its 34-year history: endearing, emotional, witty, hilarious, colorful — and my favorite, from The Los Angeles Times: “physically awesome.” Founded in 1971 by Dartmouth College...
by Kristin Palpini | Nov 30, 2015 | Articles, Arts
Northampton artist Larry Rankin is sharing photography from his trips to Tanzania featuring shots of animals, landscapes, and local life. A Taste of Tanzania, through Dec. 30, Amherst Chamber of Commerce, 28 Amity St., Amherst.
by Kristin Palpini | Nov 30, 2015 | Articles, Astrology, Wellness
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Persian scholar Avicenna was so well-rounded in his knowledge that he wrote two different encyclopedias. Even as a teenager he was obsessed with learning all he could. He got especially consumed with trying to master Aristotle’s...
by Kristin Palpini | Nov 30, 2015 | Articles, Columns, The V-Spot, Wellness
Hey Yana, I recently started reading your sex column, and it’s really great! There are sooooo many questions I had floating around in my mind about sex, because they don’t really talk about lesbians that much (ahem, at all) in sex ed. My problem is this: I recently...
by Debra Scherban | Nov 30, 2015 | Articles, Wellness
Dueling guidelines from national health organizations about breast cancer screening may be confusing patients, but doctors from three area hospitals say that the science driving when to begin tests is imprecise. Patients and doctors should decide among themselves...
