Each morning overwhelms, Light rising from behind dark mountain Walls of fir, madrone and oak, bright blasting Waves of fire through lingering dark Canyon lurking sheets of drifting cloud, Little may the creature do before this but be swayed. Thousands of dawns in memory, This one still rends, reaps, and reveals shadows No idea knew […]
Steven Streufert
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Beware
Aptly named Beware, Will Oldham’s subtle and mysterious new album is not what it initially seems. Depths of strange light and dark meaning emerge with repeated listening. The cover presents a skull visage against sinister black, a pale orb of the title’s warning hovering above; on the back a surging planetary volcano. The palindromic catalog […]
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Lie Down in the Light
Album by Bonnie "Prince" Billy. Drag City. For those still under the spell of Will Oldham’s majestic The Letting Go, or perhaps the superb show at Eureka’s tiny Synapsis Gallery, this latest Bonnie "Prince" Billy album may at first be a disappointment. It enters with a warm, countrified splash of fiddles, banjo, piano and vocal […]
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The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
By Pico Iyer. Knopf. At the center of today’s conflicts and aspirations, the Dalai Lama stands as an embodiment in proxy for his stolen and decimated nation (China began to invade in 1949), but also an example of nonviolence and reconciliation. From humble village origins to a state of virtual divine rule as a child, […]
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Road to Bluff Creek
“Roger and Bob rode out that day / Their lives changed in every way/So did ours ’cause we got to see/A living Bigfoot, walking tall and free ,” sang Tom Yamarone, belting out the verses of one of his Bigfoot folk-historical ballads. Yamarone’s lyrics rang true inside the Willow Creek VFW Hall a couple of […]