Leonard Olson is the epitome of a perfect woodcrafter. He has a beard like Santa Claus and eyes that sparkle, despite the oxygen tube attached to his nose (he has been in […]
Art / Social Issues
We Can Play It
When Toni LeFebvre was a young jazz trumpet player, she found herself searching online for videos of drummer Sherrie Maricle and the DIVA Jazz Orchestra, one of the few professional all-female jazz […]
Art / Social Issues
A Monument to The Past
Iowa was invaded on October 12, 1863. Twelve Confederate guerrillas wearing stolen Union uniforms crossed the Mason-Dixon Line, riding north from Missouri into Davis Country, roughly two hours south of modern Des […]
Art / Sciences
Am I High or is this a Street Puppet Show?
On the corner of Clark and Berwyn in Andersonville, a Chicagoland neighborhood, old-timey music from the ‘60s drifts in the wind. Little kids and groups of friends gather close to the sound, […]