Author: Sarah Baker

  • April 2018 Issue Cover

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  • Wasting Not

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    Sarah Baker   Ainhoa Perez Garijo “Hokusai’s Great Wave” by Bonnie Monteleone, 2016 Greenepeace USA, Turtle and Plastic in the Ocean © Troy Mayne / Oceanic Imagery Publications   Nine years ago Ainhoa Perez Garijo took the first steps towards reducing her waste and today she and her family live almost completely waste-free, meaning they…

  • Word of the Month

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    Dakota Blackman   green adjective  \ ˈgrēn \ 1. of the color green 2. covered by green growth or foliage • green fields 3a. often capitalized relating to or being an environmentalist political movement 3b. concerned with or supporting environmentalism • green consumers who practice recycling 3c. tending to preserve environmental quality (as by being…

  • Culture Corner

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    My Thoughts On Two Documentaries: Long Strange Trip (Amazon Studios, 2017) and Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (2017 film; released on Showtime Network in February 2018 for television) Bernie Langs   Cream in the 1960s, (from left to right) Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton (source: Wikipedia)   Promotional poster for Long Strange…

  • Quotable Quote

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      “A flurry of leaves at the window like those calendar pages flying in old movies to indicate time passing, and it is passing, though where it’s going nobody seems to know. Something is always lost and something found — an earring or the key to a certain door, to some second self. I watch…

  • Life on a Roll

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    Elodie Pauwels https://elodiepphoto.wordpress.com/  Nasturtium Leaves Rose in the Park

  • March 2018 Issue Cover

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  • Culture Corner

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      “Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer” (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 13, 2017 – February 12, 2018)   Bernie Langs   The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently had on view an internationally acclaimed exhibition, “Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer”, which closed on February 12th. Of the 600 drawings attributed to the great genius of…

  • Nessa Noms: Flip Sigi

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      Vanessa J. Wu   Flip Sigi has been a long time coming. This Filipino taqueria is headed by Chef Jordan Andino who was born in Canada, grew up in California. He takes inspiration from his Filipino grandmother and draws on skills from the time he spent working in fine dining.   Jordan’s first restaurant…

  • Black Magic Juice

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      Johannes Buheitel I’m confused, disoriented. The ringing from my alarm still in my ear, I’m performing the absolute minimum necessary number of tasks that prepare me to go out and join the herd of zombies slowly moving through the streets. Phasing in and out of consciousness, me and my fellow undead finally manage to…