POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Most of the KRCL staff was in San Francisco at a national radio conference when the calls came. KRCL’s Public Affairs Director Gena Edvalson had asked Robert Nelson, longtime host of KRCL’s Smile Jamaica, and Lorna Vogt, longtime activist...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - A perfect day is spent driving and shooting,” claims photographer Paul Hadley, his voice crackling over a cell phone connection. “I drive and shoot. There’s always a picture within 10 feet of me if I just look for it.” Appropriately...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Laser Floyd. Laser Zeppelin. Laser Metallica. Even if you have never experienced the nationwide cult phenomenon of the late night rock & roll laser light show, you’ve probably heard the rumors. With technology marginally more impressive than...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Last fall, photographer and mixed-media artist Teresa Flowers taught her first adult mixed-media art class at the Visual Arts Institute. Almost a year later, and two months before moving to Los Angeles, Flowers now begins her fifth, and final, session...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Public radio producer Scott Carrier is known for storytelling—his voice as dry and unassuming as the west desert, spackled with the kicked-up dust and sand of yesterday’s hitchhikes and tomorrow’s open roads. However, Carrier is less...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Sculptor Ken Little operates in the material world—making tangible things, working with the visible, evoking the everyday. Yet he is obsessed with what he calls “what is not there”—the emptiness inside the shell, the nothingness...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - I recently enrolled in beer school—more specifically, the Desert Edge Brewery’s monthly, one-session “Beer School” which is so modestly advertised that had I blinked on my way to the restroom at The Pub, I would have never seen...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Iam single, and I am both fascinated with and aggravated by dating—the chemistry, mystery, selection and elimination. The complete illogic and the (sometimes, literal) romp into the unknown are par for the complex course of finding a mate. Many...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - We chose [the name] ‘LocoMotion’ because we want to move forward with this festival and in this medium,” explains Melissa Robbins of Spy Hop Productions, the engine driving the second annual LocoMotion International Film Festival. “It’s...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Standing in front of “Duty Cycle”—the geometrically pristine, 17-foot paper disc that serves as the centerpiece for Cris Bruch’s Dreaming Doing Craving—the Seattle-based artist jokes about being the unconventional guy in...