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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 — … Read more
Sami Rasouli in Najaf, Iraq. Author(s) and Location: Sami Rasouli
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
It’s not easy to get your hands on a twenty-one-key embaire xylophone from Uganda; to acquire hers, Nichole Smaglick sacrificed a chicken. Through this act, she demonstrated her reverence for both the instrument and the Busoga tribe, giving thanks to and blessing its xylophone-playing ancestors. “When playing the embaire with the group in Uganda, I … Read more
The sun was out and it didn’t look like it would ever rain. Sopha’s mama was coming toward them, her black umbrella up over her head. She held it high, so it looked like she was reaching up her white hand to hold onto the raggedy wing of a crow. In the other hand, bright … Read more
Every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. during the legislative session, Chaplain Dan Hall hosts a two-hour prayer meeting. It is held around a long wooden table in Room 118 of the State Capitol building, just around the corner from the governor’s office. Attendance varies, averaging about twenty people who know Hall from his work as … Read more
Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather have retired, Ted Koppel’s on his way out at Nightline, and Peter Jennings’s future is uncertain due to his health. As many have opined over the past couple of months, the era of the mighty network anchor appears to be coming to an end. Viewers suffering withdrawal from their favorite … Read more