Firedances
By Helena Barbagelata
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Desert Flight and Ruby Rain
By Kelly Sargent
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Attack of the Giant Jellybean, Carpe Diem, and Count Your Blessings
By JaeMin Song
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Farmer’s Market Stall, Sky Dragon, and Wood Grain
By Mark Slauter
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Livin’ in the Light
By Onry
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– Onry
Author’s Note: “Livin’ in the Light” is a video of a song I wrote about my experience singing in Portland during quarantine and at civil rights protests as one of the only Black male opera singers in the Pacific Northwest.…
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How She Kills
By Natascha Graham
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Get On Up: 30 Tunes That Are Better Than Coffee
By David Kirby
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As a registered caffeine addict, I’m more than a little bewildered by anyone over the age of twelve who doesn’t drink coffee. I’m with Michael Pollan, whose recent audiobook, Caffeine, explores not only how the world’s most widely used psychoactive drug has taken over our lives but also tells how he tested his own reliance on caffeine by giving it up for three months. Pollan slept better, he says, but his brain power flagged and his productivity declined, so he went back to the stuff.
As for myself, well, I’m glad that somewhere around the year 850, an Ethiopian goatherd named Kaldi noticed that when his charges nibbled the berries of a certain plant, they gave up the foxtrot, waltz, and mambo forever and began to do the twist, frug, swim, hitchhike, monkey, slop, Watusi, pony, shake, jerk, stomp, shag, and mashed potatoes.…
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