[caption id="attachment_29569" align="alignright" width="300"] Cover art by Kellie Day[/caption] Poetry began to spill out of Erika Moss Gordon when she was a young child. Today, the themes have changed, but the words are still spilling. "Of Eyes and Iris" is her first book and it charts...
[caption id="attachment_29395" align="alignright" width="101"] Porcelains by Dalen Stevens at Lustre Gallery[/caption] Born and raised in southwest Colorado, Dalen Stevens is an avid outdoorsman, backpacking, hiking, and backcountry skiing the mountains and desert country of the region, his work drawing inspiration from at profound connection to his...
[caption id="attachment_29367" align="alignright" width="203"] Kara Johnson[/caption] She practices what she preaches. "The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali" constitute the foundational text of Raja (royal) Yoga. The teachings, which lay out a path for achieving physical, mental and emotional harmony, offer practices for daily life, among them, ahimsa. Ahimsa...
Editor's Note: Ever wondered why the first day of April brings out whoopie cushions and other pranks? According to web sources many ancient cultures such as the Romans celebrated the arrival of the new year on April 1st because the day roughly lines up with...
[caption id="attachment_29329" align="alignright" width="300"] John McCauley of Deer Tick[/caption] A band named after a parasite. How and why? The band Deer Tick is synonymous with its guitarist and singer-songwriter John McCauley, who grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, where he began his career by teaching himself to...
“A futuristic, psychedelic, neo-griot frenzy," raved the Village Voice Toubab Krewe is five guys, based out of Asheville, North Carolina, who effortlessly blend American rock and West African music into a style all their own, described by one critic as having a "visceral, ear-yanking quality" that...
[caption id="attachment_29085" align="alignright" width="275"] The Cave Singers[/caption] At the dawn of the new millennium, meditative, folky indie acts drew juice from canonical folkies such as Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie and took off like a house on fire, among them, The Cave Singers. Mark your calendar. Denise...
[caption id="attachment_28909" align="alignright" width="300"] Casper 'On the Wire' at Girassol Circus in Brazil. Original photography by Nori Lupfer.[/caption] Take this class just to meet the teacher, whose resume is a happy jumble of improbable, but compelling threads. For starters, Nori Lupfer earned a BA from Union College...
[caption id="attachment_28874" align="alignright" width="186"] Karen Korona, yoga teacher and healer[/caption] Join Lorrie Denesik in welcoming yogini/healer/transformational teacher Karen Korona back to town for an three-day intensive designed to enhance self-awareness and healing through yoga practices, including meditation. Do you think of sitting quietly for at least 10...
[caption id="attachment_28844" align="alignright" width="203"] Ben Clark[/caption] Is it lower levels of dopamine, the neurotransmitter that creates the so-called "adrenaline rush?" That's one theory about what drives extreme athletes to risk their lives for the sake of adventure. In his book, "On the Ridge Between Life and Death," mountaineer...
