First thing’s first: I’m not sure how I’ve gone thirty two years without hearing of the poet Nikki Giovanni. In fact after seeing her brilliant mind at work in a recent interview with Bill Moyers, I’m embarrassed to say that I’ve never come across her writing before. This Grammy-nominated poet, activist and mother has been publishing work since the 60’s and her new book Bicycles: Love Poems, comes out in a week.
New Mexico has an alarmingly high number of natural & health food markets including the standards like Whole Foods and Wild Oats, the smaller local varieties as well as the international Talin Market. Between Albuquerque and Santa Fe I’ve been to half a dozen different markets in the week and a half that I’ve been here, and the combined population of these two cities is less than that of San Francisco. Because of this easy access, the state is bursting at the seams with an unprecedented variety of ginger beer. The New Age hippies and their younger counterparts – the “dreamcatching yoga greenies” – must have developed a bit of a ginger habit. The thing I can’t seem to wrap my brain around is what are they doing with the stuff? I’ve yet to stumble across a single bottle of Goslings – or any top shelf dark rum for that matter – so they can’t be using it for Dark and Stormies? Are these health nuts just drinking the stuff straight? A prospect I’ll never understand – and one, that personally, is a bit offensive. Could they be wasting away their afternoons stumbling over tumble weeds in the high desert tripping on Moscow Mules?
Heeb Magazine is ironic, sarcastic, and very funny. When read cover to cover you’re sure to find something that will offend you, and that’s something we at 2 Out of Three respect. The latest issue of this Jewish humor and culture magazine showed up in our mail box this week and it is special. Not because there is a half naked picture of Courtney Love on the cover or a poorly chosen “urban kvetch” about the uselessness of libraries – which, by the way, are great institutions of higher knowledge – a point I plan on taking up with the editor. No, this issue is special because it is the debut of my little sister Yasha as creative director for the magazine.
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