Marianne Dubuc and the Art of Silence
In her new book The Lion and The Bird, author-illustrator MARIANNE DUBUC invites young readers into her tale…
Turning 65 with ‘Crazy’
As his 65th birthday looms, contributing editor MICHAEL SIGMAN reflects on a classic song his father, CARL SIGMAN,…
‘She Proves to Me That Every Life is a Gift’: The Zen of Dillie the Deer
Born blind, rejected by her mother, Dillie the Deer has found a home with veterinarian Dr. Melanie Butera…
Nobody Wins
Five years after his last batch of original songs saw the light of day, RADNEY FOSTER returns as…
Surf in Verse — June 2014
Riding the waves has inspired some surfers to break out in verse to explain their connection to the…
‘It’s No Surprise that Mother Earth is What’s Bringing Us Together’
The Cowboy Indian Alliance and Native American tribes (and Neil Young) unite to save sacred lands from the…
A Spasmodic Active Region on the Sun…
Ol' Sol has been putting on a show lately, with a dazzling variety of dozens of spurts and…
‘Constantly Moving Between the Centuries…’
As they did on 2013's Mediterraneo, CHRISTINA PLUHAR & L'ARPGIATTA take a different approach, this time on the…
‘Isn’t That a Lovely Thing?’
From his 1960 book MY FATHER, CHARLIE CHAPLIN, JR. remembers his father's 'ruthless determination for perfection' and its…
The Music of Nature
From his outstanding 1878 book MUSIC AND SOME HIGHLY MUSICAL PEOPLE, the distinguished African-American author JAMES M. TROTTER…