The band’s first new album in six years is a procession of pinging, clanging, reverberating tactile pleasures, an inventive backdrop for Isaac Brock’s familiar blend of forced optimism and unforced paranoia.
Rusty Blazenhoff and her Italian cousin Giuseppe Petrucci in Vignarola, outside of San Giovanni Incarico, Italy (2015)
photo by Carolyn Anhalt
Populating my family tree on Ancestry.com has changed how I look at myself and the world.
When I was about 12, I was estranged from my family. So most of my life, I’ve had almost no access to family history, which has left me floating a little bit. It’s been difficult kind of to know who I am, where I came from. Like a missing link almost. So cut to 2015 many years later. A friend invited me to travel with her to Italy. I knew I had Italian roots, so I jokingly suggested we take a road trip to the little town where my great-grandparents came from. It’s not a tourist town, and she was totally game. So I literally only knew their surname and the little town’s name. And so we rented a Fiat and headed there. But long story short, and it is a really great story that I won’t get into here, but I met an Italian cousin. I don’t speak It
Despite being at least a three-hour drive from waves breaking off the Pacific coastline, this surf shop nestled just off Lake Union deals in boards of all sorts, including paddleboardsâyup, the ones you see skimming across Lake Union all year.
Your pet shops local, too, and for good reason: This unpretentiously boutique pet supply store stocks food brands with care, keeping you out of the grain-free weeds. Locally knit cat toys and an entire wall of doggy fun are just a bonus.
Wishâs own house line of funky, patterned clothing is fit for a PNW Ms. Frizzleâthink little red mushrooms on a mid-length navy dress. Jewelry cases packed with shimmery hair clips, ornate costume earrings, and local creations ensure every visitor finds a treasure.Â
Top 10 Strangest Flavoured Foods And Drinks Ever
Have you ever considered how weird it is that humans have created a multi-billion dollar industry out of finely sliced, deep fried potatoes that often don’t taste like potato? The potato chip, and many other mass produced foodstuffs, can be whatever you want them to be nowadays; anyone who prefers ‘plain’, ‘vanilla’, ‘original’ or ‘ready salted’ as their flavour of choice are often seen as the single most boring person in the world. But when you have flavour options like those included in this list, maybe being boring isn’t such a bad thing after all…