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Bizarro Briefs: A daring escape (with cat)

Bizarro Briefs: A daring escape (with cat)

by Dave Eisenstadter | May 15, 2019 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, Featured, News

A daring escape In what could easily be a scene from an action movie (starring an elderly woman and her cat), a Massachusetts woman managed to save herself and her feline companion from drowning when the car they were driving crashed into a river and sank. The woman,...
Monte Belmonte Wines: That Time I Almost Got a Fancy Wine Word into Merriam-Webster

Monte Belmonte Wines: That Time I Almost Got a Fancy Wine Word into Merriam-Webster

by Monte Belmonte | May 14, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Food Booze and Beyond, Monte Belmonte Wines

“This is super important, Monte. You can do something. Having this knowledge that you do. Knowing both the word and knowing what you know about wine. You can do something to help this word along.” So was the charge of The Word Nerd, Emily Brewster, my resident...
V-Spot: We’re Stuck at a P-in-V Impasse

V-Spot: We’re Stuck at a P-in-V Impasse

by Yana Tallon-Hicks | May 13, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Food Booze and Beyond, The V-Spot

Yana, My partner of a year and I live together and emotionally I’m so content! However, our intimacy has hit a wall. For a while, we enjoyed our pleasure-based fun and our communication was on point! I didn’t think much about the fact that he didn’t seem interested in...
Cinemadope: Northampton Rafiki screening shows LGBTQ pride at home and abroad

Cinemadope: Northampton Rafiki screening shows LGBTQ pride at home and abroad

by Jack Brown | May 13, 2019 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured, Film

Pride Day celebrations were just winding down in Northampton as I sat down to get to work on this column. Now in its 38th year, the event is still a powerful reminder of both the power of community and the necessity of equality and representation. But while the parade...
Free Will Astrology: Be Candid With Acute Vigor, Cancer

Free Will Astrology: Be Candid With Acute Vigor, Cancer

by Rob Brezsny | May 13, 2019 | Articles, Astrology, Featured

ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to humorist Dave Barry, “The method of learning Japanese recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan.” As you enter an intensely educational phase of your astrological cycle, I...
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