High Country News, Solar Power, and Harper's

I usually skip over the High Country News quote of the week.  I will have to start checking it out more often.  I missed the quote at the turn of the year, U-District's Janine Blaeloch (Western Lands Project, just up the street), was quoted on big solar.

Currently, High Country News is looking for your stories about solar installation.  Specifically "What sort of permits did you (or your installer) have to get to put solar panels or a wind turbine on your house? Was it difficult or easy? E-mail details, including your location, to editor@hcn.org"

This week the quote of the week (about nullification) led me to High Country News' discussion of the Tiny Little Laws article by Kathie Dobie in Harper's.  It is a subscriber only article, but HCN calls the article well worth the price of the magazine.  While Dobie's article focuses on the problems of prosecution of sexual violence on tribal lands (in one area the local hospital did not have rape kits available for several years), the Denver Post published an interesting and troubling series of articles a few years back.  Women, children, and men fall between the cracks of different justice systems.   Federal prosecutors become federal prosecutors because they want to do high profile sexy cases about terrorists, drug lords, and conspirators, not community domestic problems.  And so what happens to a 7 year old girl 150 miles from the Spokane prosecutor's office gets pushed to the bottom of the pile, a 45 year old man beaten in a highway altercation is too far from Albuquerque for anyone to even interview. 

I feel less frustrated reading this issue's cover article in High Country News -- Utah's Sagebrush Rebellion Capital Mellows, about Kanab.  You may have heard about Kanab when they based the Natural Family Resolution, or because they are just up the road from Warren Jeff's Colorado City, or maybe just from their world famous animal shelter, Best Friends Sanctuary.   John Wayne stayed there, so did Clint Eastwood, the Lone Ranger, and Rin Tin Tin.  Kanab may have mellowed, but don't be surprised if you go down to the corner gas station with your old fashioned long hair, the guys hanging out might suggest that you need a haircut.

Coffee of the Week: Equal Exchange's Organic Mind Body and Soul

This week's special is Organic Mind Body and Soul.  Equal Exchange describes it as:

 
Aroma: butterscotch, vanilla custard, pecans, milk chocolate
Flavor: balanced, cocoa, caramelized sugar, malt
Mouthfeel: weighty and thick
Acidity: light sparkle
Aftertaste: dark chocolate, walnut, brown sugar

What Happened to Indian Country Today?

 Yes, it is not on the news stand right now, they have made an exciting switch to a weekly magazine format with a gussied up website. (It looks pretty good!)

But!  And you knew there was a "but" coming.  They are not currently distributing to news stands, only to subscribers.  So call or email them and say that you want to see your magazine here.  JD is planning on it, and she wants you to do it too.

January Literary Section and Friends, some old some new

We still have copies of And Memoir.  Bookmarks, Poets & Writers, Granta, African Voices, The Baffler, and Zoetrope Allstory are magazines you may have browsed or bought before.  We have a new issue of Creative Nonfiction,  and Boston Review has a new look.

So many of the new magazines come in and are a puzzle,  is it fashion?  Photography?  Pop culture?  Own is definitely men's fashion, Image is definitely photography (I am a sucker for those small format magazines), Vizor ended up in photography (although mostly pictures of women in clothes, it seemed more about the visuals than about clothes (but one could argue that about a significant amount of fashion photography)), Twin which seems a little more about the clothes is waiting hopefully for you with the other new arrivals at the front counter, and the Filament... is a little edgy and is in the catch all section of Pop Culture, somewhere near Gothic Beauty.
 

Magazines at Bulldog: Color and Colors

A couple of weeks ago, I opened my email and found my latest update from the Landscape Photography blog.  (I stumbled across this blog while looking for information about one of my obsessions, and the blog has many accounts of travels by Philip Hyde in the time and area I am interested in.  You are most likely to have run across Philip Hyde's work in classic Sierra Club publications such as Time and The River Flowing: Grand Canyon a rafting trip led by famed river runner Martin Litton in 1964 when the Bureau of Reclamation was planning on damming the Grand Canyon.)

Philip Hyde is one of the featured photographers in the current issue ofColor Magazine, you can check out the previous issue here, or the current issue at Bulldog.I

Also featured are Robin Lasser, Dave Anderson, and David Graham.










Not too surprisingly, Color is a popular name for magazines.  There is the Canadian magazine COLOR, a magazine founded by two Canadians (Vancouver) about skateboarders and their lifestyle.  Then there is COLOR magazine, a multicultural magazine for professionals, with a focus on the New England - New York regions.

And then there is COLORS, a Benetton project, now on issue 79 Collectors, showing the expected to the not so expected.   The next issue will be Superheroes (who are today's superheroes?  Send ColorsLab your favorite stories, characters, pictures, and they may publish it.

Barista Dan Reaume, Metamorphoses Ghost Light Theatricals

Hey all, a little behind, the flu season, new projects.  So a little late, but not forgotten, and there is still time!

Dan Reaume

Dan's new play is on now in Ballard!  You can still catch it January 20th, 21st, 22nd, 27th, 28th, 29th at 7:30pm or an afternoon showing on the 30th at 2:00pm.

Ghost Light Theatricals is showing The Metamorphosis at the Ballard Underground,
2220 NW Market.  Tickets are $15, $12 students/seniors, at the door or through Brown Paper Tickets.

McSweeney's Brain Box (#36)

McSweeney's Brain is here, otherwise known as McSweeney's #36.  They have an awesome picture on their website, opened up and displayed invitingly at an urban curb.  You can just come in and check out our open copy.

E.B. came in to pick up a newspaper, and thought that the box itself rather ugly, although admitting that the contents were cool.  Barista Dan, however, thought that the box was awesome, and would happily take the box if you just want the contents.  CR called it Groovy.

We still have two McSweeney's #35, but not for much longer.

The new Believer (Greil Marcus, Nick Hornby, Guy Maddin) is in, and we have a nice stack of Wholphin as well.