by Jack Brown | Jan 2, 2020 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured
Fans of the horror genre, and specifically the subset of films that have come out of Asia, will recall the mid-2000s as a heady time. With the success of the 2002 Gore Verbinski film The Ring — a remake of the 1998 Japanese film Ring, in which watching a cursed...
by Dave Eisenstadter | Jan 2, 2020 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News
If there’s one good thing the Trump presidency has brought us, it’s the annual Women’s March. Begun as a response to Trump defeating Hillary Clinton, the first woman to earn a major party nomination in the United States, the march attracted nearly half a million...
by Steve Pfarrer | Dec 31, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Music, News
When he looks back on more than two decades of forging connections with musicians in Senegal, playing with them both there and in the United States, longtime Valley percussionist Tony Vacca laughs, shakes his head in wonder, and summarizes the situation like this:...
by Advocate Staff | Dec 31, 2019 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, Featured, News
Become your own chia pet … TO SURVIVE Climate change is a scary concept and is driving people to extreme lifestyles, but it was left to a Californian landscape architect to offer us the self-sustaining vest — essentially a wearable farm that can be watered using...
by Yana Tallon-Hicks | Dec 30, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Featured, The V-Spot
Hi Yana! I’ve been practicing polyamory for three years. Right now I have two serious partners. Both of them have sex with other people occasionally, but not with any regularity. My jealousy isn’t nonexistent, but it’s manageable. My big problem is that once my...
