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Easthampton ‘Acroyoga’: A Fun, Interactive Path To Inner Peace

Easthampton ‘Acroyoga’: A Fun, Interactive Path To Inner Peace

by Amanda Drane | May 30, 2017 | Articles, Columns, Third Eye Roaming, Wellness

My shoulders and arms stretched backward like wings, I couldn’t help feeling like Rose from Titanic, and a grin spread across my face as I said: “I’m flying!” On a recent Friday I gave acroyoga a shot and it was the most fun I’ve had in while. Live music played beside...
Western Mass Missed Connections: Snow White and the dwarves

Western Mass Missed Connections: Snow White and the dwarves

by Compiled And Illustrated By Kristin Palpini | May 30, 2017 | Articles, Missed Connections, News, Newsletter

The Missed Connections forum on Craigslist is a wasteland of terrible poetry, dick pics, and whining, but among the detritus are some truly fascinating, funny, and occasionally sweet entries. The following are highlights from the Western Mass Missed Connections forum,...
V-Spot: How To Make Your Own Lube

V-Spot: How To Make Your Own Lube

by Yana Tallon-Hicks | May 30, 2017 | Articles, Columns, Newsletter, The V-Spot

Editor’s Note: While V-Spot sex pert Yana Tallon-Hicks is away on vacation, the Advocate is re-running one of her most popular columns ever, a 2013 story on how to make sexual lubrication, “Farmers Lube,” using household items. On my kitchen counter is a glass jar...
Working Against Bad Political Actors Is Not Bias — It’s Journalism

Working Against Bad Political Actors Is Not Bias — It’s Journalism

by Dave Eisenstadter | May 30, 2017 | Articles, Between the Lines, News

Well, it has happened again. Another person who appears to be a sociopath caught in an act of hatred has been elevated to a position of power in our government. And this despite what we must call an alleged (though it was caught on tape and corroborated at the scene)...
Back Talk: Life Is More Than ‘Get Them Fat Stacks’

Back Talk: Life Is More Than ‘Get Them Fat Stacks’

by Chris Tucker, Of Holyoke | May 30, 2017 | Articles, Letters from our Readers, News, Newsletter

I started talking with a customer the other day at work. He was looking for something in the store, not sure if we had it, he may have got something else. I was in the middle of something, not in the mood to make small talk. But we started to chat. We kind of butted...
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