FROM THE EDITOR

Host Oliver Broudy reintroduces us to the New England town that we call home.

ARCHITECTURE Brutalism apologist Max Page makes the case for ugly buildings.

SEX Local sex therapist Margery Noel answers the questions you’ve been carrying around for way, way too long.

HORROR Seng Ty survived the Khmer Rouge. Then he arrived in Amherst.

AND YOU THOUGHT CSAS COULD SAVE US Pete McLean explains what comes next in the food revolution.

MUSIC

Local chanteuse Carrie Ferguson with Emily Donahue.

HOW TO WEAR PINK WHEN YOU’RE SHORT Kathy Aidala is a female in physics. Which is bad enough. She’s also 5’ tall—which might actually be worse.

THE ANNUAL AMHERST LIVE POETRY PRIZE

“All West” by James Heflin, read by Matthew Duncan

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“One of the Monuments Leans North” by Gerald Yelle, read by Jenny Yelle.