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Valley Advocate Podcast: The Lifestyle of a Sex Columnist

Valley Advocate Podcast: The Lifestyle of a Sex Columnist

by Advocate Staff | Feb 26, 2018 | Articles, Newsletter, Podcast, The V-Spot

Yana Tallon-Hicks has been writing the Advocate’s sex and relationship column, The V-Spot, for seven years. It’s something she enjoys greatly, but she says it isn’t exactly the Carrie Bradshaw lifestyle some people seem to think it is. She is also a...
Free Will Astrology: Search Out Your Ghost Towns, Sagittarius

Free Will Astrology: Search Out Your Ghost Towns, Sagittarius

by Rob Brezny | Feb 26, 2018 | Articles, Astrology, Newsletter

ARIES (March 21-April 19): On September 1, 1666, a London baker named Thomas Farriner didn’t take proper precautions to douse the fire in his oven before he went to sleep. Consequences were serious. The conflagration that ignited in his little shop burned down large...
The V-Spot: My Lover and My Bestie Are Dating

The V-Spot: My Lover and My Bestie Are Dating

by Yana Tallon-Hicks | Feb 23, 2018 | Articles, Columns, Newsletter, The V-Spot

Hi there! I’m an early 30s, cis, brown, queer non-monogamous woman. My question is about a situation I find myself in with a lover and my best friend. This best friend is my Bestie, my chosen family. The lover is my first male lover in over a decade. (I was with...
Faced With PVTA Cuts, Small Town Western Mass Residents Have Few Ways to Get Around

Faced With PVTA Cuts, Small Town Western Mass Residents Have Few Ways to Get Around

by Sarah Heinonen | Feb 22, 2018 | Articles, News, Newsletter

Dee Marshall, 73, of Ware, sits in the front seat of the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority (PVTA) shuttle bus wrapped in her pink coat. She had a doctor’s appointment in Longmeadow today, as she does every Friday. She left her house early this morning to catch...
O: Cannabis: ‘Little pieces of art’ — the magic of making professional edibles

O: Cannabis: ‘Little pieces of art’ — the magic of making professional edibles

by Meg Bantle | Feb 20, 2018 | Articles, Columns, News, Newsletter, O Cannabis!

Algebra and edibles do not usually mix, but for Mark Wikar one is absolutely essential for creating the other. Even though his background is as a pastry chef, Wikar now uses a lot of math to create perfectly dosed edibles at INSA, a medical cannabis dispensary that...
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