Gallagher’s makes a move Kelly Erben is about to start a seating, serving and dishwashing shift at Gallagher’s Irish Pub and Restaurant, as she has for 16 years, “the last original staffer,” as she says, and owner since 2017. But she’s not heading through the corner-facing glass double doors of the Historic Eagle House, built […]
By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill
Posted inArts + Scene
Convention and Invention
JINGLE JANGLE: A CHRISTMAS JOURNEY. Somewhere on the deep end of my October horror movie binge, I noticed the nightly episodes of Murder She Wrote I needed to come down from an exorcism or a house full of haunted dolls were no longer available. Instead, with pumpkins still yet to carve, the Hallmark Channel had […]
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Shiso with Everything
I didn’t even hear my cat-footed co-worker leave the bag of shiso leaves on my porch. But, to my joy, there it was: a dozen or more peach-fuzzed, feathery edged, heart-shaped shiso leaves, green on one side, purple on the other. Last week she’d sent me an email asking what I do with shiso — […]
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Front Window
In one of Janessa Johnsrude’s photos, a mother and daughter sit perched in an open window, smiling at one another, a big, milky-eyed dog between them. Their tableau, framed by the window of the house, is overlaid with the branches of an apple tree bright with pink blossoms and a set of copper wind chimes […]