by James Heflin | May 6, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Here’s a particularly absorbing site that’s a sort of museum of failures to invent the permanently elusive “perpetual motion machine”–sort of a monument to the stubborness of those who think they will magically discover that physics is...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | May 6, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows
Let me begin with a little love letter to my town, Northampton, Massachusetts a couple of days after its 29th Pride March. This year’s was the largest ever, with estimates around 15,000. The other big civic event in our town each year is the Hot Chocolate Run to...
by Stephanie Kraft | May 6, 2010 | Wellness
For the average American, the current economy is the perfect storm. Job insecurity, layoffs, foreclosure, loss of salary and health benefits: everything, in some cases even physical survival, is threatened. The result is stress, and it’s affecting people’s...
by Chris Rohmann | May 6, 2010 | Stage
“Gould and Stearns have long had at least three sides,” says the Gould half of that duo. They are consummate clowns and committed social activists, as well as having distinct individual careers. This weekend, Peter Gould and Stephen Stearns celebrate 30...
by Chris Rohmann | May 6, 2010 | Stage
If music be the food of love… vo-de-oh-doh! In Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, young Viola, shipwrecked on an alien shore, disguises herself as a boy and becomes the go-between for the local duke, Orsino, in his fruitless courtship of the local countess,...