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The V-Spot: Exploring Kink After Trauma

The V-Spot: Exploring Kink After Trauma

by Yana Tallon-Hicks | Jul 3, 2018 | Columns, Featured, Newsletter, The V-Spot

Writer’s note: this column discusses sexual assault and trauma. Hey Yana! I’ve been seeing/having sex with this guy for a little while now. I really (really really) like him and feel super comfortable with him and we’ve had super good conversations about boundaries...
Cinemadope: The private life of iconoclast Grace Jones

Cinemadope: The private life of iconoclast Grace Jones

by Jack Brown | Jul 2, 2018 | Cinemadope, Columns, Featured

Growing up, I wasn’t often presented with images of strong women. You’d see the occasional Rosie the Riveter magnet here and there, but even then it seemed odd to me that it required sending most of the male population to an overseas war before a woman got a chance to...
Valley Advocate Podcast: Artist Dara Herman Zierlein on cutting plastic out of her life

Valley Advocate Podcast: Artist Dara Herman Zierlein on cutting plastic out of her life

by Advocate Staff | Jul 2, 2018 | Featured, News, Newsletter, Podcast

Dara Herman Zierlein made a choice to have an affect on the planet by eliminating plastic from her life. Even despite that decision, she sometimes does use plastic. But she holds onto it rather than throwing it away or recycling. She says that only about 9 percent of...
Free Will Astrology: Listen to your hives, Aquarius

Free Will Astrology: Listen to your hives, Aquarius

by Rob Brezsny | Jul 2, 2018 | Featured, Newsletter, Wellness

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Twentieth-century French novelist Marcel Proust described nineteenth-century novelist Gustave Flaubert as a trottoire roulant, or “rolling sidewalk”: plodding, toneless, droning. Meanwhile, critic Roger Shattuck compared Proust’s writing to...
Pick of the Day 6/30: Cajun Dance Night at the Root Cellar

Pick of the Day 6/30: Cajun Dance Night at the Root Cellar

by Chris Goudreau | Jun 29, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Music, Newsletter

The Root Cellar is hosting a cajun dance night this month featuring two local bands. The first is Les Taiusts from Western Mass and southern Vermont, an old school electric Cajun dance hall band, followed by fiddle due drive group Terrible Mountain String Band. The...
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