My look back at an eventful, dysfunctional, random musical life.
My Pop Life: Step, by Vampire Weekend
Featured Poet: Amy Thatcher
Two poems from Amy Thatcher.
Featured Artist: Pia De Girolamo
Philadelphia painter Pia De Girolamo explores the Arctic.
Art: An Interview With Karen Clarkson
For Clarkson, art is a vehicle for empathy and a tool to draw attention to social injustice, and this particular series focuses on the plight of murdered and missing Native American women.
Literature: Discovering Adrienne Rich
A journey into Adrienne Rich’s life and poetry.
Featured Photographer – Paul Godier
Scenes of Dorset life from photographer Paul Godier.
Film: Dreams and Dust
Owning a home is a fundamental part of The American Dream – yet it remains something that millions of Americans never attain. So then why, in practically every town in America, are homes abandoned and left to decay?
Magpie MixTape: Food & Music
What better to accompany food than a soundtrack?
Fiction: The Messenger
I Hermes stand here at the crossroads by the wind beaten orchard, near the hoary grey coast; and I keep a resting place for weary men. And the cool stainless spring gushes out.
Music/Film: A Band Called Death
The whole story is “…strange. It’s just…strange.” And it is, but in the beautiful way that some stories are so strange they make perfect sense.
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