by Juno Lamb | Mar 18, 2013 | The Public Humanist
For years I wrote letters. “Have you ever heard of The Collected Phone Calls of Gertrude Stein?” Rita Mae Brown says in Starting from Scratch. “Writers should learn to write letters and save the telephone for business.” I took her words to...
by James Heflin | Mar 18, 2013 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Sometimes profound social change happens so fast no one is prepared for the new reality (yep, Future Shock, still relevant). I assumed Google Glass would fizzle out because its wearers look absurd. But then again, so do those bizarre pointy shoes some women still...
by Free Sport | Mar 18, 2013 | Free Sport
Mitch Seavey became the oldest musher ever to win the Iditarod – “The Last Great Race on Earth” (not including the the Yukon Quest, according to some) – when the 53-year-old crossed the finish line in Nome, Alaska ahead of the rest of the pack...
by Advocate Staff | Mar 18, 2013 | Stage
Despite the oft-recited adage of the anti-gay contingent, sometimes it really is Adam and Steve, not Adam and Eve. That’s the case with PVPA’s production of The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, which follows the couples Adam and Steve and Jane and Mabel from...
by Maureen Turner | Mar 18, 2013 | News
In the late 19th century, the Lyman Street area of downtown Holyoke underwent a significant change. Once home to Irish immigrants, who’d arrived in the city in the 1840s to work on its dams and canals, the neighborhood now began to be dominated by Polish...