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Urban Safari: Covid Christmas 2021

December 31, 2021 // 0 Comments

Things were looking up for a while regarding the pandemic, then a variant emerged and broadsided: no one who was paying attention, and everyone who refused to acknowledge it [...]

‘A Christmas Carol’ @ Ventfort Hall

December 5, 2021 // 0 Comments

We took a two-and-one-half-hour drive from Boston (on the coast) to Lenox (in the Berkshires) to attend a one-person performance of the Charles Dickens story, “A [...]

An Unlikely Story Event: GRACELING

November 28, 2021 // 1 Comment

There is a wonderful, delightful, human-owned, independent book store in Plainville, Massachusetts called An Unlikely Story. Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and [...]

No-Kill Thanksgiving: TheFeast

November 26, 2021 // 0 Comments

Thanksgiving ought be a day of spending time with friends and family—not holed-up in the kitchen prepping and cooking (unless you want to, which we have wanted in the [...]

No-Kill Thanksgiving: ThePrep

November 21, 2021 // 0 Comments

No-Kill Holiday Feasts have been a RainyDay “thing” going on seven years now. We aren’t saying that our “thing” has turned into a [...]

Urban Safari : Van Gogh

November 14, 2021 // 0 Comments

Those of us who grew up with laser light shows at the Museum of Science’s planetarium had a little bit of déjà vu at the Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience at [...]

Proof Syrup Botanicals: FirstTaste

November 7, 2021 // 0 Comments

We are the first to admit that basil and rosemary are not scents or flavors we think of when we think about what kind of botanicals are associated with cocktails. Mint, [...]

Boxster Project: Aluminum-look Gas Cap

October 31, 2021 // 0 Comments

Every once in a while we come across something completely frivolous, marvelously bling-y, and, of course, utterly desirable. We know that whatever it is is silly, but we [...]

Graphene-X Polo-X: FirstLook

October 23, 2021 // 0 Comments

We have been a fan of Graphene-X products ever since we pulled one of their Layer-X tee shirts over our head. The material is comfortable to wear in a wide range of [...]

Urban Safari: Paradise City Arts Festival

October 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

The pandemic forced many of the shows and events we would normally attend to be either cancelled or reimagined as a virtual…something. While “attending” a [...]
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