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Editorial: Half-baked Plan Not Good Enough for Hampshire

Editorial: Half-baked Plan Not Good Enough for Hampshire

by Chris Goudreau | Apr 10, 2019 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News

Although the future of Hampshire College still remains uncertain, there’s a lot to be said for the strong level of support for the experimental 1960s-established college among Valley residents, alumni, students, faculty, and staff in advocating for an independent...
V-Spot: I Caught My BF on Grindr

V-Spot: I Caught My BF on Grindr

by Yana Tallon-Hicks | Apr 8, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Food Booze and Beyond, The V-Spot

Hi Yana! I’ll just dive right in — it’s come to my attention my boyfriend has Grindr on his phone. He was talking to multiple people, sending scandalous pictures, and making plans to have sex. We’ve talked about this and he says it’ll never happen again and he’s...
Cinemadope: Is Hellboy actually a Western?

Cinemadope: Is Hellboy actually a Western?

by Jack Brown | Apr 8, 2019 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured

The tropes of the American Western have had a surprisingly wide influence. Its heady mix of self-sufficiency and violence, often presented as a necessary but natural manifestation of a hero’s morality, has spread like seeping blood into nearly every kind of popular...
Free Will Astrology: Libra, take the advice of Ovid … and Pat Benatar

Free Will Astrology: Libra, take the advice of Ovid … and Pat Benatar

by Rob Brezsny | Apr 8, 2019 | Articles, Astrology, Featured

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Qing Dynasty controlled China from the mid-seventeenth century to the early twentieth century. It was the fifth biggest empire in world history. But eventually it faded, as all mighty regimes do. Revolution came in 1911, forcing the last...
Monte Belmonte Wines: Blue is NOT the New Pink

Monte Belmonte Wines: Blue is NOT the New Pink

by Monte Belmonte | Apr 5, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Monte Belmonte Wines

Amy McMahan, co-owner of Mesa Verde in Greenfield, is one of the most intellectually curious people I know. And her curiosity guides her passion for wine. The last time I wrote about Mesa Amy in this column, it was when she showed up to my house with four bottles of...
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