By David Barrell Perhaps only at Suicide Six do skiers and riders pass by a hen house while skiing on the Back Door trail. By Karen D. Lorentz Where can you ski by a chicken coop with hens fluttering around […]
Category: Column
Column, The Outside Story
The Outside Story: Sneaky ducks and scrambled eggs
By Carolyn Lorié If you peek into a wood duck nesting box during the breeding cycle, you might find 10 to 11 eggs, which is the bird’s normal clutch size. But you might also stumble upon a box overflowing with […]
Column, Looking Back
Looking Back: simple Sundays
Back in the ’50s it was easy to tell when it was Sunday. I’m not sure it’s so simple any more! Shopping was not an option, as downtown stores were closed except for small food stores, pharmacies and places that […]
Column, Generation Y
In art, the lines are always blurry
In the immediate aftermath of the courtroom verdict that awarded $7.4 million of the profits from the 2013 hit “Blurred Lines” to the family of Marvin Gaye (whose 1977 single “Got to Give It Up” was allegedly plagiarized), two distinct […]
Column
Intuitive Eating: The anti-diet, Part I
It’s virtually impossible to scroll through Facebook and Instagram and not come upon hashtagged gym selfies and food photos repping every approach to health—from #paleo to #rawvegan and everything in between. Personally, I have dabbled in essentially every diet, macronutrient […]
The Outside Story
The Outside Story: Nothing rotten about deadwood
By Joe Rankin A guy down the road has been working in his woods for the last couple of years. He’s cleaning them up-—and I mean cleaning. He cuts the underbrush, takes out the dead trees, the downed logs, the […]
Generation Y
I’d like to apologize, but I won’t
“Saturday Night Live” recently did a sketch that mocked Kanye West’s latest awards show-related apology, which came two and a half weeks after Kanye rose in protest at the Grammys when alt-rock legend Beck beat out R&B star Beyoncé for […]
Rockin' The Region
Rockin’ the Region with The Machine
If you like Pink Floyd, then head to the Pickle Barrel on Thursday night to see the next best thing to Floyd: The Machine. I have seen The Machine numerous times and they put on a great show. If you […]
Column
Cocktail corner: Tullamore irish coffee, a nod to the Irish
By Tom Joyce “Give everyman his DEW!” Tullamore D.E.W. that is. How’s that for a whiskey slogan? It’s not as effective as being mentioned in a country or rap song but for 1873 it’s pretty impressive. Daniel E. Williams used […]
The Movie Diary
The spice of life
By Dom Cioffi I first started hearing about the product with the code name of “Ginger” in the early months of 2001. Secretive press releases called it a “paradigm shift in the way humans will live” and “the next big […]