Arts & Culture

Healing powers of song

photo - Seattle-based Iraqis in Pajamas, left to right: Sean Sebastian, Loolwa Khazzoom and Robbie Morsehead

Seattle-based Iraqis in Pajamas, left to right: Sean Sebastian, Loolwa Khazzoom and Robbie Morsehead. (photo from Iraqis in Pajamas) How do you take the wisdom of surviving and turn it into beautiful things?” asked Loolwa Khazzoom, front woman for Seattle-based…

Artistic visions on belonging

image - “We are Family” by Cat L’Hirondelle is now on exhibit at the Zack Gallery, as part of he group show Community Longing and Belonging, which runs to March 29

“We are Family” by Cat L’Hirondelle is now on exhibit at the Zack Gallery, as part of he group show Community Longing and Belonging, which runs to March 29. The new group show at the Zack Gallery, Community Longing and…

Play’s vital importance

photo - Shepherd Siegel, author of Disruptive Play

Shepherd Siegel, author of Disruptive Play. (photo by Laura Totten) Shepherd Siegel is a hardcore idealist. At least, it would seem so, based on his book Disruptive Play: The Trickster in Politics and Culture (Wakdjunkaga Press, 2018). “What if we…

God and America

photo - Michael Medved’s latest book is God’s Hand on America: Divine Providence in the Modern Era

Michael Medved’s latest book is God’s Hand on America: Divine Providence in the Modern Era. (photo from Michael Medved) Most of us would call them close calls or dumb luck – the many things in American history that could have…

Schitt’s Creek in final season

photos - Co-creators Eugene Levy, left, and son Daniel Levy were among the Schitt’s Creek panelists at the 92nd Street Y in New York City on Jan. 17

Co-creators Eugene Levy, left, and son Daniel Levy were among the Schitt’s Creek panelists at the 92nd Street Y in New York City on Jan. 17. (photos by Rod Morata/Michael Priest Photography) Fans of Canada’s mega-hit TV show Schitt’s Creek…

From baseball player to spy

photo - Moe Berg as a catcher during his time in Major League Baseball

Moe Berg as a catcher during his time in Major League Baseball. (photo from Irwin Berg) Near the end of John Ford’s essential 1962 western, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, a newspaper editor coins the credo, “When the legend…

Belief in God gives strength

photo - Author Cheri Tannenbaum gives a talk about her book, A Woman of Few Words

Author Cheri Tannenbaum gives a talk about her book, A Woman of Few Words. (photo from Gefen Publishing House) “Happiness is a choice,” writes Cheri Tannenbaum in her book Woman of Few Words: My Creative Journey with Dystonia (Gefen Publishing…

Life with inherited trauma

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Dr. Gita Arian Baack, author of The Inheritors: Moving Forward from Generational Trauma. (photo from Gita Arian Baack) Dr. Gita Arian Baack, author of The Inheritors: Moving Forward from Generational Trauma, was in town earlier this month to speak at…

Goldstein’s Snapshots in Montreal

photo - Part of Dina Goldstein’s 11-photograph series Snapshots from the Garden of Eden is “Princess in the Tower” (2017). © Dina Goldstein

Part of Dina Goldstein’s 11-photograph series Snapshots from the Garden of Eden is “Princess in the Tower” (2017). (image © Dina Goldstein) On Feb. 20, Vancouver-based artist Dina Goldstein’s Snapshots from the Garden of Eden opened at the Museum of…