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by Hunter Styles | May 6, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Leisure, News
Liz Stewart leans forward to point out a series of bracelets made from metal nuts, washers, and wires. “It’s mostly new and repurposed hardware,” she says. “The idea is to take ordinary items and put them into situations you wouldn’t expect to see them. People look at...
by James Heflin | May 6, 2015 | Arts, Music
by Amanda Drane | May 6, 2015 | Between the Lines, News
Yet another young black man is dead at the hands of America’s law enforcement. We may not yet know all of the details, but video footage shows that Freddie Gray was breathing and screaming when he went into a Baltimore Police van. He was unconscious and had a severed...
by Yana Tallon-Hicks | May 6, 2015 | Articles, Featured, Leisure, The V-Spot, Wellness
Dear Yana, My eldest daughter is now 16. I’ve had to cover the sex talk basics as her mother (we’re divorced) is FAR more conservative (and shall we say repressed) than I. How do I, as a father, steer my daughter towards a more sex-positive outlook when it’s clear she...
by Kristin Palpini | May 6, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Leisure, Music, News, Scene Here, Stage
It’s the final performance of the 2015 Springfield Symphony Orchestra season and the 71-year-old group has put together a timely show, The Rite of Spring with Spencer Myer on piano. Buses for retired living communities line the street outside. Inside Symphony Hall,...