Folksinger, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist John McCutcheon is known for his warm voice, instrumental prowess, song selection and ability to connect with audiences. Called “the most impressive instrumentalist I’ve ever heard” by Johnny Cash, McCutcheon moves between six instruments (guitar, fiddle, banjo, piano, autoharp, hammer dulcimer)...
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Kate Laddish
Columnist - January 20, 2019 in Columnists
Playing music, creating community: John McCutcheon celebrates Pete Seeger centennial with new album, tour
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JL Nash
- January 19, 2019 in Columnists
Australia’s dirty secret – the refugee crisis
The Border Force Act (2015-17) in Australia prevents workers in refugee/asylum-seeker camps from reporting facts on conditions, etc. It is, in fact, a criminal offence. I was a teacher in a detention centre for asylum seekers in 2013 and I will not be silenced. There...
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Tracey Yokas
- January 4, 2019 in Columnists
Cleaved
Habemus papam, read the words on my television screen. We have a pope! Pope Francis has been elected as the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. White smoke wafts from the Sistine Chapel chimney. Bells peal. I’m sitting on my couch at home in...
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Shawn Taylor
- January 3, 2019 in Columnists
The sweetest girl in the world ever
I want to be the sweetest person you know. Not the most decent, the most principled, the hardest worker, all commendable. Do those anyway. I mean The Sweetest Girl You Ever Met.
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Maya Spier Stiles North
Columnist, Editor-in-Chief - December 25, 2018 in Columnists
All I want for Christmas is Trump’s resignation
They set a low bar for Donald Trump, and he banged his head on it. Austan Goolsbee By now, Mr. Trump, you have been hearing that you are the worst president in U.S. history from an abundance of people. You’ve heard it from ordinary people....
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Jesse Loren
Columnist - December 24, 2018 in Columnists
Christmas is an iceberg decorated with lights and sadness
It’s easy to believe that scars on the skin – the rough, the pitted, the keloid – left by experience or trauma might have correlative emotional reminders inside. I have a stupid scar on my arm from carving the initial of my first middle school...
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Terri Connett
Columnist - December 23, 2018 in Columnists
Meanwhile back at the nursing home
Only in this fuckside-down world of Tronald Dump could I find refuge in a place where people go to die. I feel such empathy for my dad and everybody there. And I recognize this might be the kind of place I’ll be plopped into before...
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JL Nash
- December 18, 2018 in Columnists
The ambivalence of grief
We cry for ourselves when someone is going to die. We cry for the potential loss of them in our lives. When a death sentence is pronounced, we cry for the pain we anticipate. But what happens when against all odds, someone continues to live,...
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Maya Spier Stiles North
Columnist, Editor-in-Chief - December 16, 2018 in Columnists
Solitary holidays and how this Jew-by-choice learned to enjoy the season again — anyway
So it’s all rolled around again — quicker now as I’ve aged. Earlier, too, but that’s not my fault. Blame capitalism. I saw Christmas stuff out before Thanksgiving hadn’t even happened yet. I was not alone in my irritation — people around me nodded in...
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