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Green Island Grrrl
- OUR FIRST RESPONDERS👮♀️👮 July 6, 2022 By Rosalie Tirella Worcester’s, America’s First Responders see, experience so much trauma. How do they “process”? photo: R.T. I know, it’s FOX, but I want to talk about a photo – a video frame, frozen in time, courtesy of Fox News TV. It’s on my Face Book ...
InCity Voices
- Best buds!🐾💗🐾🐾💗 By Rosalie Tirella Rose’s Jett and Lilac I took Jett and Lilac to a vaccine clinic a few days ago. Not the most pleasant experience. I waited outdoors, with everyone else, for my dogs to be taken in to see the veterinarian. The old, tall guy in ...
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!
- Westminster’s “Breed Standards” 🐕🦺mean misery for dogs – and the people who buy them! By Lindsay Pollard-Post A husky pup. Full-blooded Siberian Huskies, German Shepherd Dogs, and many large, fast-growing dog breeds often develop hip dysplasia. This arthritic condition is painful – and genetic, the result of over breeding, in-breeding … Mutts like Lilac are “out-bred.” This often happens in Appalachia ...