The Pie's the Thing

I have a mother-in-law whose abilities to make PIE are pretty much, legendary. She made a birthday pie for a friend the other evening. Quoting Rachel: “Lisa, can you alert me the next time you make pie and then include me in eating it?” My friend Gina...
StageStruck: War Stories

StageStruck: War Stories

First there was a small woman, alone on the bare stage, relating a horrifying story of epic proportions that seemed to fill the dark echoing space. Then a couple of guys cramped inside a five-foot Plexiglas cube delivered a zany, rapid-fire evisceration of the art of...

Letters: What Do You Think?

A Windfall for Biomass? When a crisis occurs, it is important that decision makers take a moment to think before reacting in order to move forward rationally rather than making poor decisions based on fearmongering and opportunism by vested interests. Currently we are...

When Bernie Plays Hardball

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has been on the warpath lately about the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Congress’ lone socialist, officially known as an Independent, was so indignant early this summer when he learned that the NRC had taken a secret vote...

Imperium Watch: Gas Hogs No More

Trucks: they bring us everything we use day by day, and they use 20 percent of the fuel consumed by transportation (which is more than two-thirds of fossil fuel used in the U.S.). They also spew 20 percent of vehicle emissions. Now, for the first time, the country has...