by Patricia LeBoeuf, Daily Hampshire Gazette | Jun 2, 2015 | Wellness
Sitting on a folding chair in a small room at the back of CVS/ Pharmacy in Northampton, Christopher Meoli of Northborough had the sleeve of his T-shirt rolled up waiting for the needle family nurse practitioner Connie Turner had aimed at his upper arm. “I’m pretty...
by Kristin Palpini | Jun 2, 2015 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News
Earlier this year, when Georgia’s Ebony Monique Dickens posted that “all black people should rise up and shoot at every white cop in the nation starting right now,” she got arrested. When Jeremiah Perez of Colorado wrote in the comment of a YouTube video in December...
by Kristin Palpini | Jun 2, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Leisure, Music
Like anyone who loves going to music festivals, I cannot tell you how many I’ve attended: 50, 75, 10 — After a while they all run together into a single hot, soggy time dancing under open skies marked by torrential downpours, mind-blowing sets, and epic antics. Make...
by Kristin Palpini | Jun 2, 2015 | 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 | May 27, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News
Four-year degree in Marxism When the college administration posts a notice on campus to “report hate crimes” the idea, it would seem, is to take the focus off the college administration as being the culprit in one of the slickest crimes that slowly progressed...