Gallery Review
Tale Feathers
Stories from a bird's-eye view at New Grounds Gallery
Adabel Allen speaks through birds. Her gravure works on display at New Grounds Gallery, Emergence, use the avian subjects as muse and protagonist, and the effect is both sentimental and whimsical—not to mention visually stunning.

Book Review
Old School, Old Hat
Carolyn Cooke’s novel is a study in jumbled nostalgia
Writer John Bear dissects Daughters of the Revolution, a book about a private school in New England during the ’60s.

Caleb Cole
Culture Shock
Sex and slam poetry go together like latex and lube. That’s why performance artist Cameryn Moore—known for her fearless sex plays "slut (r)evolution" and "Phone Whore"—created Smut Slam, a touring event that puts fornication in a public and poetic context.