Maybe it’s the love of lifelong learning. Or maybe it’s a fascination with the new ideas out there. Or it could even be a flashback to the excitement I always felt when opening a new AU course start-up package. Whatever the reason, I’m feeling that way all over again as I read about all the… Read more »
?When people decide to live, destiny shall obey, and one day . . . the slavery chains must be broken.? Tunisian poet Abu Al-Qasem Al-Shabi ?I think that every free person who really loves this country has to fight injustice and corruption. I think this is also my duty. I really love my country and… Read more »
It’s mid-January. Christmas is over, and so are the holidays. And although many of us are back at the work-and-school slog, our minds feel refreshed from our break time. But do our bodies feel the same? What are we missing? Traditional First Nations societies strongly believed in taking time to rejuvenate the body several times… Read more »
“Some friends had invited me to a small party at their house. My host told me a story that his gardener had told him a few days ago. I asked to speak to the gardener, who explained that he was from a village in the Northwest of Tunisia. It had snowed there; the people needed… Read more »
This interview originally appeared June 25, 2010, in issue 1825. Home Routes is an exciting, new non-profit initiative creating music events that benefit musicians, consumers, communities, and the earth. Recently, Home Routes volunteer coordinator Ali Hancharyk took the time to answer some questions from Wanda Waterman St. Louis. Home Routes was the brainchild of our… Read more »
This article originally appeared October 8, 2010, in issue 1840. It’s October, and Thanksgiving celebrations are right around the corner. Many of us are planning an ample Thanksgiving harvest meal, attempting to balance healthy eating with a feast-like menu. But what is the health rating of a typical Thanksgiving spread? Red, Red Cranberries Make sure… Read more »
This article originally appeared February 19, 2010, in issue 1807. It seems doubtful that any teacher in Canada would deny that an important aspect of education is to mould young people into well-rounded adults. A holistic approach combining practical with interpersonal knowledge is generally espoused by well-meaning educators as well as by parents. Yet there… Read more »
This review originally appeared October 15, 2010, in issue 1841. As a horror fan, I’ve bemoaned the recent spate of huge-scope, quasi-horror flicks that focus too intently on action and external forces. For me, the demarcation line between horror and sci-fi is clear: horror is intimate, often uncomfortably so, while sci-fi is broad and sometimes… Read more »
Meklit Hadero is an Ethiopian-born, Yale-educated, San Francisco-based singer-songwriter whose style merges jazz with folk and world music to create deeply sympathetic portraits of life’s magical (and often unnoticed) details. Her first full-length CD, On a Day Like This… , has just been released by Porto Franco Records. Meklit recently took the time to chat… Read more »
It’s nearly Christmas, so out come the butter, the sugar, and the white flour. Many of us are baking those wonderful Christmas goodies—cookies, pies, bars, cheesecakes—and ogling each one of them with guilt as we recall our waistlines and our wannabe diets. And even if we avoid baking such delicacies, the tempting morsels still arrive… Read more »