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Let me introduce you to Edgar, a cat
Meet Edgar. I’d like to introduce you to someone before he enters the world of speed dating. Edgar is my current foster kitten, and Saturday, he’ll head back to the Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society. Once there, he’ll be scheduled for his neuter and the removal of an eye that couldn’t be saved. As soon as he’s recovered, he’ll move to the adoption floor. I’m hoping we can skip the speed dating altogether. I’m looking for Edgar’s forever family before that happens.
Venison Pot Roast and Gravy
Everyone enjoyed and had seconds. I did layer onions and garlic at the bottom, stacked thinly sliced venison and then added more onions, stacked venison again and poured the beef broth. It was tender. Made my own grill seasoning and used smoked butter(yes you read right) in the roux. So good! Only one bad thing - No leftovers.
The Joys of Womanhood: Sacred, Beloved, and Beautiful
Join more than 1,200 Catholic women from around the Archdiocese of Philadelphia as we gather for the ninth annual Catholic Women’s Conference on the beautiful grounds of the Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown. The Catholic Women’s Conference is an opportunity to live vibrantly and celebrate our Catholic faith! We encourage you to register early, as the event is a sellout each year. This day-long event will be held Saturday, Oct.
Letter: Keep Anchorage neighborhoods clean
By Mary Ellen Mitchell Updated: 2 minutes ago Published: 2 minutes ago I would love to see Anchorage have a competition on which neighborhood is the cleanest. I am 85 years old, and when I go out for my daily walk, I take a trash bag for picking up stuff. I sort out anything that is recyclable. So how about it? Let’s all clean up our streets. — Mary Ellen Mitchell Anchorage Have something on your mind? Send to letters@adn.com or click here to submit via any web browser.
Riah Martin's Work As Summer Camp Counselor Leads To His Role As Elementary Teacher
EDWARDSVILLE - Riah Martin may have developed a passion for working with children just six years ago, but that passion has led him to a third-grade teacher position at Albert Cassens Elementary in his first year out of college. “I began working with kids as a summer camp counselor six years ago and loved every minute of it,” he said. “Following that summer I began coaching competitive gymnastics. Through these experiences, I developed a passion for working with kids.
Liberty Middle School Welcomes Four New Teachers For 2021-2022 School Year
EDWARDSVILLE - Liberty Middle School and Principal Allen Duncan welcomed four new teachers for the 2021-22 school year, including Lauren Davis (sixth-grade science), Amber Gieseking (seventh-grade science and PE), Jordi Harre (seventh and eighth grade English) and Katie Speaks (eighth-grade science). Davis and Gieseking are veteran teachers, while Harre and Speaks are both in their first years.
Maybe fighting crime in Chicago is a job for RoboCop. No, really.
What Chicago, and the world, could really use is RoboCops. You heard me. RoboCops — like in those old, at the time futuristic movies. Police officers have enough to do tracking down shooters after the fact. We need a police presence on the scene before the shooting starts. Besides, police officers who each day witness the chaos in our neighborhoods have got to be reaching a breaking point. What else would explain why police officers are still being accused of brutalizing suspects?
How Apes Reveal Human History
✽ When I was a kid, every trip to the zoo featured a visit to the orangutan habitat. I was fascinated by the animals’ long fingers, how they took shelter when it started to rain, the affection they showed for their children, and the way they stretched after sitting too long in one position. Sometimes watching them felt like watching any other animal at the zoo, but sometimes it felt like watching people who happen to be visiting a nearby park. I swear I knew what they were thinking and feeling.
The History of African American Visual Culture
Barkley L. Hendricks in front of “Bahsir (Robert Gowens),” an oil and acrylic on canvas that he made in 1975. (Duke Photography/Flickr). If you were lucky enough to see “The Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power,” an exhibition that opened at the Tate Modern in 2017 and subsequently traveled to the U.S., you may have come away with a renewed appreciation for the power of images to confront racial oppression and subvert visual expressions of white supremacy.
Women’s soccer team loses heartbreaker to Calvin, 1-0, in season-opener
Posted: Mar 18, 2021 OLIVET, Mich. – The Olivet College women's soccer team fell to Calvin University, 1-0, in its season-opener at the Cutler Athletic Complex. Today's game was the first for the Comets since October 29, 2019, a span of 506 days.
Web Exclusive: A Reader Interview with John A. Kohan
John Kohan’s calling to sacred art began early: “Sacred art has been a lifelong preoccupation, judging from the earliest sketch of mine my mother saved. It is a pencil illustration of Jesus’ parable of “The Sower and the Seed”…drawn when I was a child of six or so.” Since age six, John has worked as a foreign correspondent to Russia, settled in Cyprus, and continually collected sacred art.
A Conversation with Gene Luen Yang
Gene Luen Yang is the MacArthur genius grant–winning author of graphic novels including Boxers and Saints and American Born Chinese. He also writes graphic novels for kids (the Secret Coders series) and for major comic book publishers (Avatar, The New Super-Man). He is profiled in issue #95. Image: In Boxers and Saints, the two central characters are wonderful because they’re flawed – their flaws are part of what make them so interesting to read about.
Khaled Mattawa Interview
Khaled Mattawa on Adonis Our new issue includes Khaled Mattawa’s translation of “A Bridge to Job” by leading Syrian poet Adonis. We asked Mattawa to talk with us a little about Adonis’s work, the challenges of translation from Arabic, and what poetry in translation can uniquely offer us. This project is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. First of all, can you tell us a little about Adonis, for those who don’t know his work?
Schooling the Freed People: Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861-1876 by Ronald E. Butchart
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WINDBORNE Livestream Quarantine Concert
We are disappointed that we have had to cancel this Saturday's show featuring the internationally-renowned vocal group, Windborne. All is not lost, however, as Windborne is offering a free, online concert at the same time that our concert would have been held! So bake up a batch of brownies, pour yourself a cup of coffee, and join Windborne's streaming concert Saturday night at 7:30.
Braintree Folk Presents
Internationally acclaimed vocal band Windborne will headline Braintree Folk on Saturday, March 14, 2020. Windborne has collected and studied polyphonic vocal music for over 15 years from traditional singing masters from cultures around the world, Windborne is able to shift from radically different genres like no band you have ever heard. The quartet shares a vibrant energy onstage – their connection to each other and to the music is clearly evident.
A Conversation with Kirstin Valdez Quade
Kirstin Valdez Quade writes short stories that wrestle with the bonds and obligations of family, faith, and place. In the tradition of Flannery O’Connor and Alice Munro, each of her stories builds to a moment of simultaneous shock and recognition, revealing both the beauties and absurdities of human character. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times, Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere.
Perspective | Rediscovering the lives of the enslaved people who freed themselves
A new project recovers the stories of people who liberated themselves in the years before the Civil War The names and sale prices of some of the slaves held in the Alexandria, Va., slave pen owned by Isaac Franklin and John Armfield in the early 19th century are displayed on the wall along the basement stairs of Freedom House on Feb. 5, 2018. The house is now a slavery museum.
Social Justice Conference: The Wage Gap
Income Inequality Cartoons We will discuss the Inequality Gap as it applies to wages of workers who can't make it with one 40-hour-a-week job: what is the Gap, effects of the Gap, which classes of workers are affected (a lot of us!) and what individuals and local groups can do to reduce the Gap. Speakers: Neenah Estrella-Luna, Assoc. Prof. Sociology, Salem State University Harris Gruman, Executive Director, SEIU Massachusetts State Council Fabricio DaSilva, Organizing Director, UFCW Local 1445 Rev.
My Friends Banned 'Garfield' In Their House â Here's Why We Let Our Kids Gorge On Those Books
Reading a book 200 times is a surefire way to find out whether you love it or want to throw its rhyming llama couplets into the diaper pail. Children's books especially do a tricky dance for an audience of squinty-eyed parents and wide-eyed tots: the best ones, like a syringe of infant-suspension Tylenol, have a little something for the parent at the end.
The Young White Faces of Slavery
Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. For Northern readers scanning the Jan. 30, 1864, issue of Harper’s Weekly for news from the South, a large engraving on page 69 brought the war home in an unexpected way. Drawn from a photograph, it featured eight recently freed slaves from Union-occupied New Orleans. At the back of the portrait stood three adults, Wilson Chinn, Mary Johnson and Robert Whitehead.
From the archives: Football players, coach and dean perished when ‘Gold’ plane fell
Wichita State experiences the worst disaster in the history of American college football, as told in 1970. Where have all the flowers gone? The tear-filed eyes of this young lady at Memorial services for those killed in last week's tragedy express the shock and emotion felt by much of the Wichita community. More than 12,000 people came to Cessna Stadium Monday night to pay tribute to those who died. Oct. 9, 1970. Where have all the flowers gone?
Issue 98 - Image Journal
Todd Davis is the author of six books of poetry, including Winterkill, In the Kingdom of the Ditch, and the forthcoming Native Species, all from Michigan State University Press. He is professor of English and environmental studies at Pennsylvania State University’s Altoona College. Jerzy Ficowski (1924–2006) was a poet, songwriter, and scholar who studied the Polish Roma population and the work of writer and artist Bruno Schulz.
A Writer's Writer's Writer: Lydia Davis and the Naked Mind
At a certain point in her life, she realizes it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to have had a child. —Lydia Davis, “A Double Negative” Like many Lydia Davis fans, I sometimes mentally write parodies of her very short stories as I go about my day. Once you’ve been steeped in her work, this can become a mental tic: The plastic things in the dishwasher never get dry.
Issue 97 - Image Journal
Isaac Anderson’s work has appeared in Image, Portland Magazine, TheAtlantic.com, Los Angeles Review of Books, Fourth Genre, The Christian Century, and elsewhere, and has received honorable mention in Best American Essays. He was the 2016–17 Image Milton Fellow. Asnia Asim earned her MA in humanities from the University of Chicago. Her poetry has appeared in several print and online journals. She is currently working on her first novel.
Following the Henry Knox Trail
In 1926, honoring the sesquicentennial (150-year) anniversary of the Revolutionary War, the states of New York and Massachusetts erected 56 stone markers with brass plaques commemorating Henry Knox’s 1775 expedition from Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point (New York) to Dorchester Heights outside Boston, Massachusetts. The markers trace the route, which looked something like this: I first learned about these markers when I was researching Henry Knox in 2007.
A Conversation with Van Gessel
Van Gessel has been Shūsaku Endō’s primary English translator since the 1970s. He has translated eight of his novels and worked as a consultant on Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Silence. We asked him about the previously untranslated Endō story in Image issue 92, and about what Endō’s work has to say to the West. Can you tell us a little about the history of the story “Hymn to the Blessed Mother”? How did you first come across it?
Web Exclusive: A Conversation with Mohammed Ali (a.k.a. Aerosol Arabic)
Issue 89 features the work of graffiti and installation artist Mohammed Ali, whose murals appear in cities all over the world, from his native Birmingham to Melbourne, Dubai, and Kuala Lumpur. He also performs collaboratively with musicians and poets.
Web Exclusive: A Conversation with Lisa Ampleman
In issue 87, poet Lisa Ampleman reviews three new books by Jericho Brown, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, and Rickey Laurentiis—three African American poets who each write about faith, identity, and injustice in different ways. We asked her to reflect a little on the connection between poetry, empathy, and justice. She was interviewed by Mary Kenagy Mitchell.
Web Exclusive: A Conversation with Claire Holley
In issue 58, Claire Holley writes about balancing songwriting with motherhood. We sat down with Claire to ask her about her music, her life, and her new album, Hush—available now at claireholley.com. Image: You’ve written in our new issue about balancing songwriting with being a mother. What does your son think of your music? Does he come hear you play? Claire Holley: Well, his preferences seem to change a lot.
Web Exclusive: A Conversation with Dan Wakefield
Dan Wakefield recently edited a book of the letters of Kurt Vonnegut, with whom he maintained a literary friendship over four decades. Though Vonnegut is often associated with the skepticism and iconoclasm of the sixties and seventies, faith held a mystique for him. At times he called himself a “Christ-loving atheist” and “a Christ-worshipping agnostic.” In a full-length essay, Dan Wakefield explores his friend’s life-long attraction to the teachings of Jesus.
Web Exclusive: A Conversation with Nicholas Samaras
The summer issue of Image includes four poems by Nicholas Samaras, one of which was influenced by Michael Sitaras’ conceptual art project, Sacred Air. All poems are part of his work on a book of poems in response to the biblical Psalms. We asked Nicholas how these poems began. Image: You’ve been working on a contemporary book of poems based on the Psalms—in fact, you’ve written 150 poems, the same number of Psalms in the Bible. How did this project come about?
Web Exclusive: A Conversation with Patton Dodd
Image: In your essay in the new issue of Image, “Power in the Blood: Hollywood and the Myth of Religious Violence,” you write about the strange relationship Hollywood has to Christianity—mainstream Hollywood movies tend to use violent Christians, often broadly stereotypical ones, as villains. They also tend to tell stories where further violence is used to set the world back to rights by getting rid of religion, which is portrayed as unhealthy, harsh, or insane.
Web Exclusive: A Conversation with Linda Hogan
Chickasaw poet, essayist, and fiction writer Linda Hogan’s essay in the Image issue 79 is a lyric meditation on the migration of sandhill cranes and their connection to the Platte River in Nebraska. It explores the links between the natural world and human making—and sets forth a way of standing in awe before nature. Image: The essay begins with you crouching near the Platte River at dawn with a group of observers. Can you tell us about how the piece came to be written?
Web Exclusive: A Conversation with Lauren F. Winner
Each chapter of Lauren F. Winner’s new book, Wearing God: Clothing, Laughter, Fire, and Other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God (HarperOne), explores a single biblical image of God through a mix of exegesis, cultural history, and personal essay. The chapter excerpted in issue 84 is about bread. Image’s Mary Kenagy Mitchell recently asked Winner about her new book, her love of history, her punctuation, and the politics of writing about the Bible.
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