Month: May 2005

  • Chateau Golan Winery, Israel

    Stefan writes: Sharon, Liam and I just returned from two weeks in Israel. We carried a copy of the Rake with us to the Golan Heights and gave into the pull of pop culture and took a few shots with the Rake! The shot of us is in front of the Chateau Golan Winery at…

  • Seattle, Washington

    John writes: The spaceships have landed and I am going to try and seduce them with a Rake Magazine. Really though, just one week in Seattle and one week back in the T.C. I bring a Rake Mag with me whenever I fly. It’s great reading material in the air/airport. Plus, when I get to…

  • Maubisse, East Timor

    Mary and Steve write: We are dedicated and regular readers of The Rake — and to prove it, here is a picture of us reading The Rake in Maubisse, East Timor. (8 degrees South latitude, 125 East Longtitude — we flew to Tokyo, then Bali, Indodesian, then into Dili the capital of East Timor —…

  • Najaf, Iraq

    Sami Rasouli in Najaf, Iraq. Author(s) and Location: Sami Rasouli

  • Man Handled!

    If there’s one thing the mainstream media loves more than creating its own celebrities, it’s a good old-fashioned rags-to-riches story. So much the better if that classic American journey involves flesh peddling at one end and a prominent masthead title at the other. That’s why there’s no hotter commodity in local journalism these days than…

  • Like it Used to Be

    A picture of Broadway Street in Gilbert from 1910 looks surprisingly similar to one taken yesterday. Sure, there are now streetlights and pavement and tall trees, but the strip is still lined with old-fashioned, flat-roofed buildings, none more than a couple of stories high. While nearby Ely, in catering to canoeists and nostalgia seekers, has…