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Archive for the 'Month summaries' CategoryDecember 2007 in Black LambVolume 5, Number 12 — December 2007December 1st, 2007 In this, our largest issue ever, John Vergin tells a tale of Christmas in a small town in A Christmas Story. In our page 2 feature, Rebecca Owen reflects on the joys of pet ownership in Man’s Best Friend. A Spoiled Christmas tells why Cate Garrison’s holiday will be tainted by an evil man.
Posted by: The Editors October-November 2007 in Black LambVolume 5, Numbers 10-11, October-November 2007October 1st, 2007 The All Suburbia Issue In our cover story, Terry Ross muses on what constitutes a suburb and remembers how many important things were absent from the suburban home of his youth. In our page 2 feature, Frankly Snobbish, Cate Garrison recalls how difficult it was for her to feel creative in suburbia. Gillian Wilce wonders whether suburbia is a state of mind in Not Suitable for Sidcup. City boy Ed Goldberg recalls his own youth in suburban Long Island in Train to Nowhere. In Norway, Lorentz Lossius goes Fishing in Suburbia.
Posted by: The Editors September 2007 in Black LambVolume 5, Number 9 — September 2007September 1st, 2007 In our cover story, In Memoriam Beverly Sills, David Maclaine pays tribute to the opera star. In Our page 2 feature, Who’s Minding the Store?, Cervine Kauffman wonders why people who work in groceries know nothing about groceries. Lorentz Lossius discovers his ancestors in the small Norwegian town of Røros. A fatal accident is taken in stride in Rebecca Owen’s Stroke of Fate.
Posted by: The Editors August 2007 in Black LambVolume 5, Number 8 — August 2007August 1st, 2007 The All City Issue In our cover story, Terry Ross takes a close look at an overrated city: Portland, Ore. In Cityhell 2007, our page 2 feature, Greg Roberts maintains that cities are now obsolete. Elizabeth Hart (Remembering New York) harks back to a gentler, better time in America’s premier metropolis. In Oslo, Lorentz Lossius describes the capital of his native country. Cate Garrison wonders: What Is a City?
Posted by: The Editors July 2007 in Black LambVolume 5, Number 7 — July 2007July 1st, 2007 In our cover story, Fighting Words, Ed Goldberg explores the thin line between verbal abuse and an invitation to violence. In Certifiable, our page 2 feature, Dean Suess examines the nut cases behind bars. Dan Peterson describes an island of Italy and yet separate from it in Sardegna. In North and South, Gillian Wilce explains how London is divided into two different worlds. Actor William Bogert didn’t find much work recently in L.A., but he made out all right in Underworked and Overpaid.
Posted by: The Editors June 2007 in Black LambVolume 5, Number 6 — June 2007June 1st, 2007 The Black Lamb Review of Books In our cover story Terry Ross wonders how people find time to read books and talks about the 14 books on his shelf waiting to be read. In our page 2 feature, Tales from the Crypt, Ed Goldberg reviews two books haunted by dead white American authors. In A Lot of Learning, William Bogert offers an appreciation of memoirs by Dick Francis and Anne Fadiman. Cate Garrison reviews The Bookseller of Kabul in We Believe Her. You Read It Here First: Terry Ross celebrates the reissue of Evelyn Waugh’s travel books, the 5-volume autobiography of Leonard Woolf, and Irene Handl’s wonderful The Sioux, published in 1965.
Posted by: The Editors May 2007 in Black LambVolume 5, Number 5 — May 2007May 1st, 2007 READ THIS ENTIRE ISSUE IN THE ENTRIES BELOW In our cover story Greg Roberts humorously exposes America’s remaining — and flourishing — child-labor sweatshop: newspaper delivery. In our page 2 feature, California Dreaming, Terry Ross finds a serious clash of cultures on a road trip to southern California. Actor William Bogert reveals that for him The Best Show Ever was a stage production of Peter Pan more than 50 years ago. Lorentz Lossius (In and Out of God’s Ear) ranges from Melbourne to New York to the Pacific Northwest as a professional cathedral singer.
Posted by: The Editors April 2007 in Black LambVolume 5, Number 4 — April 2007April 1st, 2007 The All-Marriage Issue READ THIS ENTIRE ISSUE IN THE ENTRIES BELOW In our cover article Terry Ross introduces this special All-Marriage Issue and opines: “Now I may be thick, but I don’t see how it follows that if the pressures of modern life lead to marriages not working out, then something is wrong with the idea of marriage. Why not say something is wrong with the pressures of modern life? Why put all the blame on little old marriage? Instead of changing marriage, why not change modern life?
Posted by: The Editors March 2007 in Black LambVolume 5, Number 3 — March 2007March 1st, 2007 READ THIS ENTIRE ISSUE IN THE ENTRIES BELOW In our cover article (Wal-Mart to the rescue) Greg Roberts nominates an unexpected environmental hero. In You say tomato, I say… Rod Ferrandino reflects on the perils of being too often right. Actor William Bogert remembers when he did the Charleston with Julie Andrews in The light fantastic. In Spots, Andrew Darrel reflects on a lifetime of food stains on his clothes. Lorentz Lossius paints the portrait of an Australian city in Melburniana.
Posted by: The Editors December 2004 in Black LambAll Christmas Issue, Volume 2, Number 12 — December 2004December 1st, 2004 READ THIS ENTIRE ISSUE IN THE ENTRIES BELOW In this seasonal issue, Editor Terry Ross tells a Christmas story of life at the railroad. In our page 2 feature, Sensory Overload, Michele Gendelman tells how at her house Christmas and Chanukah go hand in hand. In First and Last Christmas, Lorentz Lossius remembers a bittersweet celebration when he was a boy in Norway. Although It’s Just Christmas, Cate Garrison says there’s no denying the spirit of the season. Andrew Darrel, in Angelus ad Virginem, finds that as he’s gotten older, what Christmas has lost in intensity it has made up for in duration.
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