Last January, many of us feared the New Year, what with a person routinely referred to as a liar, sexual predator, egomaniac and worse about to be inaugurated as the nation’s 45th president. With the onset of 2018, trepidation has changed from the Trump who justified our fears to being
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Posted January 03, 2018in Lunch With...
George Formaro obsesses about food. He wakes up in the middle of the night to read esoteric government manuals about pickling and charcuterie. He is owner/chef of Italian, French and Mexican restaurants, plus the Zombie Burger chain, Gateway Market and Café and South Union Bread Café. We asked him to
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Posted January 03, 2018in Sound Circuit
They don’t care what you think “We don’t give a fuck what really anybody has to say,” Vahnevants bass player James Brittenson says. “Personally, I’m just trying to impress this little hunting party,” singer Micah Surdevant says. Since their first release in 2014, the four-piece 1960s garage rock band (the
Read More →“The E.P.” Lily DeTaeye Station One Records Lily DeTaeye’s debut with Station One Records is every bit as commanding and thoughtful as I thought it would be. I expected nothing less from the 19-year-old, who at such a young age has amassed an impressive enough local resume to make her
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Posted January 03, 2018in People & Pets
A teenage dream comes true Courtney Tompkins was destined to own miniature donkeys. “I saw them as a teenager and just thought they were super cute and said, ‘One day I’m going to have mini donkeys,’ ” Tompkins says. The miniature donkeys found their way to her in the most
Read More →‘Greetings from Utopia Park: Surviving a Transcendent Childhood’ In the early 1980s, after being abandoned by her alcoholic husband, 5-year-old Claire Hoffman’s mother, a devoted practitioner of Transcendental Meditation, abruptly moved Claire and her brother from New York to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s headquarters in Fairfield, Iowa. “Greetings from Utopia Park” is
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Posted January 03, 2018in Tech Talk
Beware of the addiction to the latest and greatest in tech So, the holidays have come and gone, and, as expected, your gifts were nothing too exciting. No big deal. It’s a new year, a blank slate with all kinds of possibilities. In fact, you’re so pumped that maybe it’s
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