The Blues Ain’t Dead

January 7, 2015 Rob Azevedo 0

By: Rob Azevedo The sound coming from inside The Woodpecker Lounge was a mixture of brilliance and raw nerve.  Last Breath’s legendary blues man, Dick Zaino, was setting off rockets with his red Stratocaster, gassing through songs about guilt and suffering, belting out one after another, looking lean and tanned, his hair slicked sweet, eyes […]

Without Google, I’m Only Half as Smart

January 5, 2015 Smith 0

By Maven Cade Leary “God Dammit! Not Again!” I cursed at the world, grateful in the knowledge no sane God could possibly be listening to my bullshit. And even if one could be, it is highly unlikely that he/she would be. Between me and the seven or whatever billion humans […]

Escaping Uganda

January 5, 2015 David Pratt 0

by David Pratt Until recently I sold cars for a living. I wasn’t very good at it. I don’t possess the right mercenary spirit, cutthroat ambition and proper lack of ethics to take full advantage of people. I have principles. I am all about honesty and equity, and my empathy usually lies […]

The Sheep and The Iconoclasts

January 2, 2015 johanngalloway 0

johann galloway I remember leaning on the sill of my grandma’s open living room window in Nurnberg, Germany back in 1990. The final game of the World Cup just ended. The secluded and normally quiet street below was filled with revelers shouting and chanting the team anthem as if they had […]

Trouble in Nova Scotia

January 2, 2015 Rob Azevedo 0

By Rob Azevedo It was sometime in late August 2000 when we drove off that boat ramp into Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, ready to begin our lives together, legally, as a committed couple. It should have been the time of our lives. After a stellar ceremony on Cape Cod where friends […]