rakemag Enjoying the most recent issue of the Rake at Cabo De Roca in Portugal, the western most point of continental Europe. “where the land ends and the sea begins” (and people read the Rake). Author(s) and Location: Mark and Deb Skoine
Did Chris Mars live through (or die from?) the Black Plague in a former life? His paintings of ghoulish, skeletal crowds and beseeching wraiths, set in gloomy environments that hark back to medieval villages, seem too vivid to have come purely from the imagination. Cruel and creepy, yet with a visceral beauty, Mars’ storytelling on … Read more
Our lady who art in Kenwood seems to have an endless supply of spooky and captivating tales that read like campfire legends. Her Native American characters often have one foot in the modern world and the other in a misty, spirit-populated Indian landscape that is quickly disappearing. The heroines in her latest book are a … Read more
Tony, Cathy, Emma and Lucy Grundhauser on the ferry from Vancouver to Nanaimo, BC in July. Author(s) and Location: The Grundhauser Family
Cyd Gillett, Daniel Sadoff, Abe Sadoff (15), Lydia Sadoff (9). We just completed an Alaska family vacation and, of course, we took The Rake along. We landed on Ruth, a glacier named after the daughter of a man, Frederick Cook, who falsely claimed to have both been the first person to scale Denali (Mt. McKinley) … Read more
We thinks the Ivey Awards made a peculiar choice in having Justin Kirk co-host its first annual awards party later this month. Although Kirk just wrapped up a summer run of Entertaining Mr. Sloane at the Jungle Theater, he appears more frequently on the large and small screens these days. (You can catch him on … Read more
Annie, a student at Wheaton College, in front of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. Author(s) and Location: By Annie Belz
The right to bare arms…and more I was sitting around with a few wags yesterday and we were talking about the problems the Iraqis (if there is such a thing–as opposed to Sunni, or Shiite or Kurd, that is) were having in getting some agreement on a constitution. Aside from the squabbles over oil revenues … Read more
The news that counts Barcelona, Spain One of the things about being out of the country for a week is you see how the other half lives without the constant bombardment of propaganda from our government. (They have their own to BS them, of course.) There has been the news of Britain’s crack down on … Read more
I was just thinking we haven’t had a good excommunication since Galileo The only reliable bit about the Star Tribune, other than Katherine Kersten will provide some laughs to anyone who can think, is the cartoons of editorial cartoonist Steve Sack. This guy has gone too long without a Pulitzer prize. Today’s cartoon does the … Read more