Me and your excellent magazine at the Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, AK. Mendenhall Glacier is in the Tongass National Forest and falls under the jusrisdiction of the National Forest Service. The have an excellent visitor’s center and trail system around the area and down the glacial morraine. This was my fourth trip to Alaska and Mendenhall … Read more
Athens. 2006. It’s hot. The Acropolis on its hilltop is floating above the city on a shimmer of heat. But here on the hotel balcony I’m cool. I’m reading The Rake. Everyone who reads The Rake is cool! Author(s) and Location: Robin Overmier
The Rake & supplement in front of CBs Gallery and one of the whole group in front of the Bowery Poetry Club across the street of CBGBs. Author(s) and Location: Ruthie Stevens
As an American Muslim, I think it was an ingenious idea to go to and report—very generously—on the closely confined Saudi Arabia [“Postcards from Saudi Arabia,” December]. For Peter Schilling to penetrate Saudi and report on it firsthand is absolutely honorable, since the Saudi government obstructs others (including many Muslims) from coming into its country … Read more
CLOSED DOORS After reading the cover story “Postcards from Saudi Arabia,” I am so thrilled for Peter Schilling that he experienced such wonderful hospitality while visiting the desert kingdom. Luckily for him, he didn’t get caught in a homosexual act, which is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia (public beheading and stoning are two popular … Read more
MORE GENEROUS THAN GRATEFUL Maybe it’s just me, but your series of “Giving and Getting” articles [December, 2006] seem much more weighted to the giving aspect. Even in “Rules of the Game,” which starts with “Giving and Getting,” and seems like it’s going to cover both topics equally, giving is placed before getting. All Penny … Read more
Riding home recently on the Metro, I spotted an ad for a bank at the Foggy Bottom station that read, “Remember when there were no oversight committees? That train has left the station.” There have been, of course, a lot of leave-takings in Washington in the wake of the November elections. Last month—December 8, to … Read more
Thank you for the wonderful article on Circle Pines’ history [“A People’s History of Circle Pines,” November]. My family and I are moving back to the area after a ten-year stint in the Northwest (we grew up in Columbia Heights). We just purchased a house in Circle Pines, have become curious about the cooperative history, … Read more
During his three-month stint in Thailand earlier this year, Lee Temte of Minneapolis dined at the memorably named Cabbages & Condoms Restaurant, whose edible fare is “guaranteed not to cause pregnancy.” Established to help fund the work of the Population and Community Development Association, the eatery serves food that “is traditional Thai,” Temte writes, “but … Read more
Deborah of Minneapolis writes: Hello Rake – I was recently in Tahiti and Bora Bora for work (need I mention that I have a great job??) and I had these pictures taken of me at the Bora Bora Lagoon Resort where I was staying. Thank you, Deborah Author(s) and Location: Deborah Dapkus