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Book Review: ‘Shattered,’ a Mystery by Valerie Davisson
In Shattered: Logan Book 1 by Valerie Davisson, Logan McKenna has lost her husband, their business and her own self-worth. Her job is in jeopardy and she struggles with her future. Making a decision...
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Interview with Linda Lucretia Shuler, Author of ‘Hidden Shadows’
Linda Lucretia Shuler can’t remember when she didn’t love to tell stories; they’ve rattled around in her thoughts, demanding attention, since she was old enough to scribble with a pencil. It’s a part...
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Skeletons in California’s Closet
Happy birthday, California! On September 9 you turned 151 years old. I joined the party close to your 100th birthday. This past half a century has been a blast. California birthed phenomena as varied...
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What do Vancouver, BC, Canada; Seattle; and Port Townsend, Washington have in common? Nice people who came together to participate in my author reading/book signings of my novel Lucy Plays Panpipes for...
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Music Review: Martha Redbone Roots Project – The Garden Of Love – Songs Of...
We hear a lot about roots music and Americana nowadays, but do we ever stop to ask ourselves whose roots people are talking about? Whenever I hear people talking about Americana music, I can’t help...
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Music Review: Otis Taylor – My World Is Gone
This is the fourth Otis Taylor album I have reviewed in the past several years. Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs (2009), Clovis People Vol. 3 (2010), and Contraband (2012) were all distinctive, as they...
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Book Review: Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie
Have you ever noticed how people react when you tell them you’re reading a collection of short stories? They’ve asked, ‘What you reading?’, and when told short stories their smiles sort of freeze in...
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Appropriation of Native American Iconography in the 21st Century
Native people and friends filled the pews and stood along the walls of Reed College chapel on Wednesday, listening in rapt attention to Louie Gong (Nooksack), Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation) and...
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Music Reviews: A Deluxe Edition of Wilco’s ‘Summerteeth,’ Plus David Huckfelt
Wilco’s terrific Summerteeth—the group’s third album, which first appeared in 1999—expands to more than four times its original length in a recently issued deluxe edition. The clamshell-boxed set...
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Music Review: Jerod Impichchaachaaha Tate – ‘Lowak Shoppala: Fire & Light’
Lowak Shoppala is the world premiere recording of a dance-theater piece by Chickasaw classical composer and pianist Jerod Impichchaachaaha Tate. Tate is a rarity, an Indigenous composer of modern...
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