Master dog trainer, Ted Hoff of Cottonwood Ranch and Kennel shows how, with the proper training, all dogs can correct bad habits. In this video, Hoff introduces Vega, a beautiful, shaggy, black Newfoundland. Vega has a tendency of getting excited around food, people and other...
In my last post, I explained that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reviewing the application for the commercialization of AquAdvantage salmon -- genetically modified salmon. Although the public at large finds confidence in “FDA approved” products, I discussed why perhaps this...
Green beer. Green hats. The greening of the Chicago River. Dying stuff green is how we usually celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in this country. But for me, St. Patrick’s Day is important because it means spring is here. Longer days. More light. And the real greening...
It has been a joy to discover there are still good, new musicals being produced that capture modern life. For musicals to work, they have to have both excellent narrative and strong, character-driven songs. "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" is just such a...
Another very warm, sunny day (Friday) with variable high clouds and light backing SW winds. We'll see a warm night with increasing SSW winds (30-40 MPH gusts) Saturday in advance of a large low pressure trough moving down the coast from the Pacific NW. The...
March 15 to 22, 2012 Visible Planets: Morning: Saturn Evening: Mars, Venus and Jupiter I’ve been writing the Alacazem astrology column now for 24 years. Sometimes it’s hard to believe that I’ve come up with Sun-sign forecasts and intros for that long - week after week,...
To delve into the music of Blitzen Trapper is to explore the sound of escape. Escape from the past, escape from a no-hope town, escape from whatever holds a soul down. It is some of the best music being made in America and is rooted...
The "Nifty 50's" were an optimistic time. Fads included Hula Hoops and coonskin caps for kids, drive-in movies and rock-n-roll for teens, conical bras and gelatin molds for moms. On the fashion side of things, there were poodle skirts, knee length shirt dresses with pinched-in waists,...
A Green Rain The rain itself is not green but it falls for hours, soft and penetrating like a massage for sore earth muscles. I am not out in the yard but standing beside a window, hands deep in my pockets watching gray winter turn green, weeps in pools as pungent dirt cleaves, birds like notes on...
Who Were the People of the Mesa Verde Region and Where Did They Go? If you follow the Dolores River from Telluride, it takes you to the heart of one of the world’s greatest archaeological areas: The Mesa Verde region of southwestern Colorado. Inhabited by American...
