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The Meditative Organ Soundscapes of Kali Malone
“All Life Long,” the title of the most recent album by the composer and organist Kali Malone, is taken from a poem by the British Symbolist author Arthur Symons:...
John Cuneo’s “Garden Party”
One of the best ways to feel a sense of belonging, or to forge a connection to a city, is to cheer the triumphs and weather the defeats of...
What You Can Do with an Electric Volkswagen Bus
The Shapiro brothers, Gefen and Yona, who are nineteen and sixteen and Harpo Marx look-alikes, own eleven cars between them, including a Girl Scout-green 1972 MG Midget, a blueberry-blue...
A Bahraini Photographer Returns Home
Unexpected juxtapositions like these appear across the photographer Ali Al Shehabi’s series “As I Lay Between Two Seas,” which documents the contours of everyday life in Bahrain. Taken over...
Of Yiddish, Litvaks, and the Evil Eye
Some years ago, at the annual P.S. 3 book fair, I came across a Yiddish-English dictionary. This was a more serious Yiddish-English dictionary than the somewhat antic one I...
Hilton Als on Understanding Difference in “Alok”
Hilton AlsStaff writerThere are a lot of ghosts in the exhibition “Dueñas de la Noche: Trans Lives and Dreams in 1980s Caracas” (through Jan. 25), at the Institute for...
The Triumph of the Post-Thanksgiving Sandwich
Leftovers, eaten the day after, or maybe late the night of, are the best part of Thanksgiving. The performance of the big meal is done, the mood has relaxed,...
What to Read This Winter, According to Tattered Cover
Tattered Cover is a Denver institution. Founded in 1971, it’s now one of the U.S.’s largest independent-bookstore businesses. Kathy Baum, who oversees the store’s orders for new books, curating...
Portrait of the Artist as an Amazon Reviewer
If you were a new parent in 2006, you might have stumbled across a lengthy Amazon review of Gerber’s Tender Harvest Sweet Potato Baby Food entitled “Mmm-Mmm Good.” The...
A Portrait of the Artist as an Amazon Reviewer
If you were a new parent in 2006, you might have stumbled across a lengthy Amazon review of Gerber’s Tender Harvest Sweet Potato Baby Food entitled “Mmm-Mmm Good.” The...
