Somewhere between the cold sauna and a snowy winter, I found the way to fix the aging process. Or at least thats what my two friends from Belarus and Siberia told me it would do ;) Hot sauna and bikram is so last year, this season I will define myself by regenerating young tissue in the cold. It has become popular through out Europe and is now entering North America for the first time. Anyone looking for a sweatless, painless…
Peace and harmony of the Burlington Occupy were disrupted on the evening of November 9th, 2011. Just near where I was standing that same evening, a man shot and killed himself. The front man for the gypsy-punk band Gogol Bordello is from Vermont. Eugene Hutz now lives in the city, but grew up in Burlington. The native Ukrainian and his family first moved to the state in the early 1990s. The Burlington Free Press reported on Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hutz description of…
Stepping off the plane in Berlin, collecting luggage, I am glad for the rail system that will take me into the big apple of Europe. Berlin is covered in graffiti. Art reflects life and right now Berlin is celebrating the fall of the wall in 1989. Dinah tells me about the Wall and where it was before the fall and we drive along the fault line from West to East to get from the main train station to her house. Colorful…
On more and more corners of downtown Denver, at Speer, Colfax and Broadway I see unwashed people of all gender, race and creed, usually adult, dressed in rags sleepily holding cardboard scraps with marker written messages asking for money. There seems to be several methods of “spare changing.” I see one lady with a baby stroller and a couple of kids crying. I wonder how many times a day she’s pinched them to elicit that reaction. I gave some strung…
