by Chuck Shepherd | Feb 20, 2017 | Articles, News, News of the Weird, Newsletter
San Francisco’s best-paid janitor earned more than a quarter-million dollars cleaning stations for Bay Area Rapid Transit in 2015, according to a recent investigation by Oakland’s KTVU. Liang Zhao Zhang cleared almost $58,000 in base pay and $162,000 in overtime, and...
by Advocate Staff | Feb 20, 2017 | Articles, Astrology, Wellness
ARIES (March 21-April 19): My astrological radar suggests there’s a space-time anomaly looming just ahead of you. Is it a fun and exotic limbo where the rules are flexible and everything’s an experiment? That might be cool. Or is it more like an alien labyrinth where...
by Advocate Staff | Feb 13, 2017 | Articles, Featured, Newsletter
If you’ve never checked out Craigslist’s Missed Connections section, you really should. The Western Mass forum is full of wistful near-meEts and longing. Below is a compilation of “missed connection” items from craigslist.org. Entries include post date. Fireman...
by Richie Davis | Feb 13, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Newsletter
Seeking the Sacred on the Farm at the UMass Fine Arts Center Seeds of Solidarity Farm is known by anyone who’s been there not only for vegetables and herbs, but for embracing art and being enveloped by a spiritual sense. Rows of vegetables, surrounding trees,...
by Chuck Shepherd | Feb 13, 2017 | Articles, News, News of the Weird, Newsletter
On Jan. 31, doctors at Stanley Medical College and Hospital in Chennai, India, removed a live, full-grown cockroach from the nasal cavity of a 42-year-old woman whose nose had been “itchy” earlier in the day. Two hospitals were unable to help her, but at Stanley, Dr....
