There’s this old Groucho Marx joke that goes, “I wouldn’t want to be part of any club that would have me as a member.” Way back in January, I decided that if I was going to apply to Teach for America, that I was going to do so honestly, publicly chronicling my experience on The [...]

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Call it ironic, but the combined oral contraceptive pill recently celebrated its fiftieth “birthday” of approval by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States in 1960. From a controversial renegade to a commonplace form of birth control worldwide, “the pill” has come a long way, and boy, do we love it. YAZ, a [...]

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Playing in the Dungeon Theatre is a divine performance of Three Days of Rain, by Richard Greenberg.  Directed by Anna Simmons and Georgia Knapp as part of the Senior Performance Series, Three Days features a strong trio cast of Nick Johnson, Abby Wood, and Alden Phillips.  As Dave Brubeck’s piano fills the forty or so [...]

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