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Green Island Grrrl
- END OF SUMMER FESTS❤️ August 16, 2022 By Rosalie Tirella Pointy tent-tops. photos: R.T. I drove by Our Lady of Loretto Church just now and saw the last, gargantuan, big top tent … empty, covering nothing, but still erected on the church parking lot. With its “points” glistening in the sun and seemingly poking ...
InCity Voices
- Yes! to COMMUNITY PRESERVATION and TRANSITIONING KIDS! By Rosalie Tirella The new Worcester? pics:R.T. Yesterday morning: pictures of the Mercantile and Ruth’s – and a totally reconfigured part of Downtown Worcester, where the old Worcester Galleria shopping mall used to be. Now we have trendy restaurants and faceless coffee shops, a fancy hotel, parking ...
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
- 🍿Movie reviews by our intern Luis📽️: always in style!🎟️🎬 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness movie review By Luis Sanchez Luis just graduated from Worcester’s South High School!🎓 Marvel Studios is once again releasing another highly anticipated movie in 2022. This time we follow the former Sorcerer Supreme Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) in his quest ...
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!
- America! Worcester! Alarming new study shows it’s time to get serious about eating better! By Heather Moore Vegan Rustic Stew. Many Americans don’t eat enough veggies, fruits and whole grains. Fewer than 7% of Americans are in excellent cardiometabolic health, which is measured by evaluating a person’s weight, blood pressure, blood sugar, blood cholesterol levels and signs of heart disease. Tufts University ...