Where the tracks met the old wagon road stood a barrier no one but me could see
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Editor Curtis Gillespie talks to Lisa Gregoire about her National Magazine Award-winning cover story, Breathing Holes.
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The Fear Divide
Sticky situation: the comeback of the cassette tape
The joke in the middle of Tom Petty’s Full Moon Fever is mostly at the expense of cassette tapes. The 1989 album’s fifth track “Runnin’ Down a Dream” fades out on an endless guitar solo, after which Petty returns for a brief, non-musical interlude. “Hello CD listeners,” he says to those who had embraced the […]
High and lonesome sound: Canada’s rural crisis
Mike Hennessy was 10 years old when he jogged his first horse, and it tore flat-out across the farm track so fast he thought his father had pranked him. The speed, the smell of the stables, the thunder of hooves on the track and the mountain air whirling across the northern Rocky plains—Hennessy put his […]
Edmontonian Time
The clock in my hometown ticks toward a once-distant optimism. Rollie Pemberton on leaving – and coming – home
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