Yoga pants: The fashion police go both ways

Yoga pants: The fashion police go both ways

He thought the readers could use a break from the election craziness and so sent a lighthearted letter to his suburban paper tendering an opinion on yoga pants.

"Yoga pants can be adorable on children and young women who have the benefit of nature's blessing of youth," Alan Sorrentino wrote to the Barrington Times in Rhode Island. "However, on mature, adult women there is something bizarre and disturbing about the appearance they make in public."

How the Ouija board got its sinister reputation
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How the Ouija board got its sinister reputation

Joseph P. Laycock

By now, most have vague notions of the Ouija board horror narrative, in which demonic spirits communicate with – even possess – kids. Director Mike Flanagan furthers this trope in his new film "Ouija: Origin of Evil." Set in 1967, a widow and her daughters earn a living scamming clients seeking to contact dead loved ones. The family business is relatively harmless until the youngest daughter discovers an old Ouija board, attempts to contact her deceased father and instead becomes possessed by evil spirits.

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