Your Dreams Are Unbound with College Unbound
By Erica Deis My grandmother never went to college. She grew up in a time where college was for the wealthy. If a family had any money at all, the male child automatically took precedence. As brilliant as my grandmother was, it was expected for her to raise a family and take a […]
Yoga: Good For What Ails You?
The art, practice and health benefits of yoga Yoga has been practiced in India for thousands of years; however, the modern practice of postures that we know as yoga is less than 100 years old. Yoga once consisted of breathing exercises (pranayamas) and meditation, spiritually grounded in Hindu and Buddhist philosophy such as non-violence and […]
Healthcare Reform, RI style
What Obamacare will mean for us If you read this in print, skip here for the stuff that didn’t make the paper. Health services are the third largest industry in the US (after oil and retail), and in RI it’s the largest single industry. That means a lot of bureaucratic momentum, and a lot of […]
Fill Your Stockings with Suds
Alt holiday gift ideas for the beer nerd in your life The leaves are still on the trees, candy wrappers are still on the floor, the nights are just getting cold and there are Christmas commercials on TV. Yep, the retail Christmas season has jumped the gun again and pre-empted our regularly scheduled program of […]
A New Plague on Our Youth
Despite big strides toward legalization, keeping marijuana out of the hands of our youth remains vital. The US Justice Department issued a statement on August 29, 2013, declaring that they will not interfere with states’ rights to implement independent, structured regulatory systems for legalized Mary Jane. This leads some to fear that a new threat to […]
Athena’s Home Novelties’ Jen Jolicoeur
Athena’s talks philanthropy and sex education You can spot Athena’s Home Novelties in Woonsocket from a good distance – most days, their signature purple RV with a giant illustration of a winking woman is parked at the front of their lot. It’s a fitting emblem for the company in many ways. Bright purple, an attention-grabbing, […]
School – On the Rocks
Its back to (bar tending)school this season When my friends heard I’d be driving down to Westerly to take bartending classes on what happened to be the perfect beach day, they hitched a ride and dropped me off at the Southern New England (SNE) Bartending Institute. Glaring as they drove away to sandier pastures, my […]
Weed Versus the People
After a century of advocating equal rights and tolerance in the United States, it is intriguing that with every passing era we discover new people and cultures to replace those whom we have so valiantly sought to defend. Where “immigrants” and “negroes” were targets of discrimination during the early 20th Century, we now project our […]
Answers to your Sexual Curiosities : Partner Play
Megan Andelloux is an AASECT-certified sexuality educator and ACS-certified sexologist Hi Megan! I am looking for information on the best types of strap-on dildos. Many of the ones I’ve found are really hard rubber and I’d like one that is more flexible and soft. If you have any suggestions of where to find something like […]