Lazy Sunday Book Review: Ellen Baker’s Keeping the House

Keeping the House, by Ellen Baker . Looking for a book to curl up with? A little mystery, a little romance, wrapped up in a page-turner of a family saga? Then you’ll become absorbed in this story of newly-wed Dolly Magnuson, who moves with her new husband to a little Wisconsin town in 1950. The […]

Lazy Sunday Book Review: David Rhodes, Driftless

The start of the new year is no better time to read Driftless by David Rhodes–it’s chock full of lively, wry characters and compelling, big stories of the inhabitants of rural Words, Wisconsin. Hey, you think it’s cold in west central Georgia? Wait till the part that takes place in a perfectly rendered blizzard that […]

Music Review: Celestial Lineage

Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage Southern Lord; 2011 Nature comes in more colors than just green. And environmentalism takes more forms than hippie drum circles and electric cars. Case in point: Wolves in the Throne Room, who recently released their third album, Celestial Lineage. Wolves In the Throne Room is the most well […]

Tyson Recalls Ground Beef from 16 States

Tyson Fresh Meats issued a voluntary recall of over 40000 pounds of ground beef  that may be contaminated with a strain of E. coli bacteria. The meat has a “Best Before or Freeze By” date of “11/13/11.” The USDA has placed a health risk of “High,” and the recall is active for 16 states, including […]