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V-Spot: I’m a Virgin and I’m in College

V-Spot: I’m a Virgin and I’m in College

by Yana Tallon-Hicks | Apr 29, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Food Booze and Beyond, The V-Spot

Hi Yana, I’m a virgin and I’m in college. Being in college seems to come with a hookup culture and an expectation to be having sex which isn’t the case for everybody. I find myself either lying or being very quiet during conversations about sex with people I’m not...
Cinemadope: The human penchant for horror

Cinemadope: The human penchant for horror

by Jack Brown | Apr 29, 2019 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured, Film

Much has been written, by better minds than mine, about the human penchant for horror. That impulse to indulge in our most deeply seated human fears and frailties is behind both traffic jams at accident scenes and modern gods-and-monsters tales about the undead (or...
Free Will Astrology: Manatees Are As Lovely As Mermaids, Sagittarius

Free Will Astrology: Manatees Are As Lovely As Mermaids, Sagittarius

by Rob Brezsny | Apr 29, 2019 | Articles, Astrology, Featured

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies,” wrote Henry David Thoreau. “How slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!” Your first assignment in the coming days, Aries, is to devote yourself to quenching the...
Trump claims to be doing more to fight opioid abuse than any other president — to a crowd smaller than Obama’s

Trump claims to be doing more to fight opioid abuse than any other president — to a crowd smaller than Obama’s

by Laurie Loisel | Apr 25, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News

In months to come, this may become a point of dispute in the history of the national RX & Heroin Drug Summit: The 2016 appearance by President Barack Obama drew a larger audience than did President Trump’s keynote in 2019. And Sean Spicer won’t be there to settle...
Mini Bottles — MEGA MESS: Agawam man on a daily quest to get trash off the streets

Mini Bottles — MEGA MESS: Agawam man on a daily quest to get trash off the streets

by Maureen O'Reilly | Apr 24, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News

A stream runs adjacent to a package store in Agawam. John Coughlin isn’t sure it’s legal for us to be there, but he wants to show me something. “Look at the nip bottles. Look at them. They’re everywhere,” Coughlin says. Small, smashed plastic bottles are mixed into...
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