by Yana Tallon-Hicks | Mar 24, 2015 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Leisure, The V-Spot, Wellness
A housewife’s wet dream, Fifty Shades of Grey, hit the big screen this past month — and hit it hard. The popularity of the book series, and now movie, has caused quite the stir in the practicing BDSM (bondage, dominance/submission, sadism/masochism) community,...
by James Heflin | Mar 24, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Food + Booze, Leisure, News, Taste-Off!
Pizza — it’s as American as, well, burritos and frankenfurters. Determining what’s the best pizza is a heady, touchy business. And in an area where there’s a pizza joint every 50 feet or so, the stakes are high. For something that is, at its most elemental, just...
by Amanda Drane | Mar 24, 2015 | Articles, Featured, News
Pandora has gotten a little too intuitive. Recently, I was running at the gym, earbuds in, Pandora streaming Kelly Clarkson’s upbeat “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” when the song was interrupted by an ad inviting me to become a certified personal trainer....
by Hunter Styles | Mar 24, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Leisure, Music, News
It’s mid-morning at the Hampshire County Jail and House of Correction. Eight inmates are gathered around an electric keyboard in the visiting room, laughing and talking quietly. Keyboard player Ken Maiuri hits middle C, and together they warm up with some scales. Up...
by From Our Readers | Mar 24, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News
Cis-gender? So much concern with body images and now a “cis-gendered woman?” (“Letter to the Editor: No room for transphobic language in Advocate,” March 5, 2015) People are exploring the age old question of, “Who am I?” Find yourself on the soul level. Try a course...