Writing rainbow
Daria Salamon, author of the Prairie Bridesmaid, finds that she does her best writing when she starts at 10 p.m. and works away into the…
Arts & Culture
Chew on this
Martha Street Studio is filled with eye candy. Bacon bookmarks, mock bubble gum modeling clay, “Pollick’s lollipops” and other novelty items that all look good…
Lipstick Traces
Which Spice Girl were you? If you were a female aged seven to 14 in 1996 you probably at least considered it. The Spice Girls…
Lovely Rita
It’s back. Did we think that, just because, in 1983, Michael Caine and Julie Walters did such a memorable job in the movie version of…
Jesus Christ : the interview
Jesus Christ Superstar,” the big block letters outside the Park Theatre will soon read, heralding two back-to-back dates of music and fun for the secular…
It’s not me, it’s you
{ The pair sits facing each other in a neutral public place. The novel is Dance with Snakes by Horacio Castellanos Moya, translated from Spanish…
Young nature artist brings wildlife art back to life
Wildlife and nature artists are sometimes hard to find in today’s art scene. Then an artist like 25-year-old Joseph Koensgen emerges. With raw talent and…
CD Review : Beach House, “Teen Dream”
Back in 2006, a small dream-pop band named Beach House tiptoed into indie music waters, making only a relative splash with their self-titled debut LP….
CD Review : Besnard Lakes “Are the Roaring Night”
The Montreal-based band The Besnard Lakes are no longer the dark horse they called themselves on their second studio album. They have emerged from the…
CD Review : Alice in Chains, “Black Gives Way to Blue”
The grunge movement of the ‘90s was absolutely huge for the music industry. Seattle-based act Alice in Chains was definitely in the middle of the…