Stories/Columns/Recipes/Music/Events
Green Island Grrrl
- Don’t go, Aurora! January 19, 2020 By Rosalie Tirella A few weeks ago, I drove by her and smiled – happy at our chance encounter. I had almost forgotten her! My Aurora! Remorseful, I tried to snap a picture of her while driving by in my jalopy, but my cell phone camera ...
InCity Voices
- So … Allen Fletcher’s chi chi “public” market opens soon … Text and pics by Rosalie Tirella … in early February. We are impressed by the fact that a guy pushing 75 years old – Allen Fletcher – can become so animated by homemade pasta, over-priced burgers, trinket shoppes and artisan beer. But Allen is a rich ...
Politically Speaking
- “Saint behind the glass” By Rosalie Tirella pics: R.T. I’m eating lunch, and there he sits, between my make-up “counter” to the left and my cocktail shaker-mini bar to the right, behind the tip of Cece’s tail in the photo: Saint Behind the Glass. Jesus behind the glass. Or, more accurately, the ...
Fashion
- Sunday Sadness … and Chef Joey’s soup recipes + FYI Sunday Sadness By Rosalie Tirella Jett in the country. pics: Rose T. ♥️ ♥️ I went out to the country with my mutts yesterday … I had to get away from my building. A terrible place to live – window broken in first floor apartment in dead of winter. Landlord ...
Music
- Worcester’s changes, big and small Text and photos by Rosalie Tirella While eating breakfast today with CeCe … … I thought about the changes – big and small – happening in Worcester, my hometown. Big change: Quinsigamond Village is getting the Blackstone Visitors Center – a bigger-than-I-expected new building now under construction ...
Speaking Out!
- An end to speciesism🐻 … Main South: Aurora art show!🖌️ … and more♥️! An End to Speciesism By Tracy Reiman It’s obvious when you think about it: Most conflict stems from the idea of “us vs. them.” Our family vs. theirs. Our country vs. theirs. Our religion vs. theirs. Our species vs. theirs. In the ranking of species, humans have conveniently ...