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Stagestruck: In the Valley and New York, history becomes personal

Stagestruck: In the Valley and New York, history becomes personal

by Chris Rohmann | Apr 18, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Newsletter, Stage, Stagestruck

The tattoo From the title, you might think The Tattooed Man Tells All is a memoir of life on the carnival circuit. It’s anything but. This man’s tat is a five-digit number that was etched into his forearm in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Peter Wortsman’s one-man...
Pick of the Day 4/18: Persona at Amherst Cinema

Pick of the Day 4/18: Persona at Amherst Cinema

by Gina Beavers | Apr 18, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Newsletter

Check out Ingmar Bergman’s film Persona. Amherst Cinema has been celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Swedish master’s birth. Hooray! Persona is another trippy Bergmanian piece wrought with WTFs. Liv Ullmann plays Elisabet, an actress who, without reason, has gone...
V-Spot: Help Me Kick My Hitachi Addiction

V-Spot: Help Me Kick My Hitachi Addiction

by Yana Tallon-Hicks | Apr 17, 2018 | Articles, Columns, Newsletter, The V-Spot

HELP YANA! I’m addicted to my Hitachi! I’ve had a primary partner for just under a year. The sex is awesome, intimate, and fun. However, very rarely can I have sex and get off without using toys, and I think it’s starting to frustrate them. I don’t have a lot of...
Monte Belmonte Wines: Giving Pinot Grigio another shot

Monte Belmonte Wines: Giving Pinot Grigio another shot

by Monte Belmonte | Apr 17, 2018 | Articles, Columns, Monte Belmonte Wines, Newsletter

I hate to write about the most boring grape in the wine world, Pinot Grigio, two columns in a row. But I threw down the gauntlet in my last wine column and challenged someone to convince me that Pinot Grigio is not the most boring of all wine grapes. “Part of me...
Pick of the Day 4/17: Hawktail at the Parlor Room

Pick of the Day 4/17: Hawktail at the Parlor Room

by Gina Beavers | Apr 17, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Newsletter, Stage

Hawktail, an exciting acoustic group, describes themselves this way: “Haas Kowert Tice brought on mandolinist Dominick Leslie to form Hawktail. Music fans will recognize them from their various other outfits (Punch Brothers, David Rawlings, Crooked Still, A...
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