by Chuck Shepherd | Nov 14, 2016 | Articles, News, News of the Weird, Newsletter
New York City officially began licensing professional fire eaters earlier this year, and classes have sprung up to teach the art so that the city’s Fire Department Explosives Unit can test for competence and issue the E29 certificates. In the “bad old [license-less]...
by Peter Vancini | Nov 14, 2016 | Articles, Food + Booze, Leisure, News, Newsletter
It isn’t hard to pick Dean Rohan out of a crowd. He’s the tall guy with glasses in the muck boots and ratty work pants. And he’s wearing a red T-shirt with his own face on it that reads “I’m with Dean.” Today, he’s overseeing the arrival of a tanker truck filled with...
by Hunter Styles | Nov 14, 2016 | Articles, News, Newsletter, Scene Here
Room to Breathe What pairs well with local beer and wine this week? My opinion: some peace and quiet. It’s not always appreciated, or sought out. But after a nightmare of an election season — full of vitriol, lies and low blows — I was feeling a serious need to go...
by Yana Tallon-Hicks | Nov 14, 2016 | Articles, Columns, Newsletter, The V-Spot
Hi Yana, I heard you on Dawn Serra’s podcast Sex Gets Real and really appreciated what you had to say about personal boundaries in new polyamorous relationships. I’m a straight guy and my wife just started sleeping with another woman a couple of months ago. I thought...
by Chuck Shepherd | Nov 7, 2016 | Articles, News, News of the Weird, Newsletter
Kids as young as 6 who live on a cliff top in China’s Atule’er village in Sichuan province will no longer have to use flexible vine-based ladders to climb down and up the 2,600-foot descent from their homes to school. Beijing News disclosed in October, in a...
