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Mental Detox Week

Happy Mental Detox week ! Yeah, so Mental Detox week began on Monday and I have yet to actually turn anything off - or at least the things that AdBusters , who launched the original TV Turn-Off week (now renamed Mental Detox Week) back in 1994 , want...

Flashbacks: Woman punished for being a dominatrix, Gloucester’s heroin problem, and Kafka on housebreaking a cat

MASSAGE HERESY 10 years ago April 3, 1998 | Sarah McNaught looked into why a local massage student was expelled from the Muscular Therapy Institute upon divulging that she was a professional dominatrix. “Sheila, however, says there is nothing dangerous...

Flashbacks: The Romney diet, Censorship on the MBTA, and the Pacification of Cambridge

THE ROMNEY DIET 5 years ago March 7, 2003 | Kristen Lombardi delved into Governor Romney’s fiscal budget to see who would be hurt most by his balancing act. “Even before advocates can sort through Romney’s plan and decipher where, exactly, human-services...