Month February 2021

How an Arizonan Company Turns Cacti Into Candy

In mid-August, 17-year-old Lynette Alvarez and her aunt, Nellie Botello, put on matching camouflage snake guards and steel-toed boots for their work gathering prickly pear cactus fruit. Snake-season is year round in the Arizona desert, and there are baby rattlesnakes…

THE COLUMNIST: Effective, But Muddled

Who doesn’t love a bit of satirical horror? Horror is a genre that is able to provide a violent lens through which societal issues can be examined and discussed without sacrificing the entertainment value of a film. Director Ivo van…

The Bowder Stone in Borrowdale, England

Located near the River Derwent is the quirkiest tourist attraction in the Lake District.  Standing around 29 feet (nine meters) high and 49 feet (15 meters) in diameter, there is some debate over whether this massive rock is a glacial…