Convergence Zone
The book is a great primer for city slickers with tips on how to build fires (teepee or log cabin style?) using a variety of woods, and stoking finesse. For practiced firebugs there's a chapter on the origins and physics of fire itself. Wogan's quirky sense of humor and witty prose keeps the book interesting even when reading obligatory information on safety (Eight Ways to be Sure You Don't Headline the 11 o’clock News). The book is full of suggestions on how to enjoy your fire — how to whittle, tipple (drink), tell spooky stories (text provided), and the complete words to "Home on the Range."
By Kathy Schultz | June 14, 2006
Convergence Zone
What's the first thing you do when you start organizing a room (or garage, or kitchen)? You shop for all those cool organizer drawers, racks, hooks, baskets, etc. Right? Wrong! You pick up Laura Leist's book, "Eliminate Chaos" ($19.95, published by Sasquatch Books, May 2006) and take a step-by-step...
By Kathy Schultz | May 24, 2006
Do you daydream of winning the lottery and embarking on an endless roadtrip? Have you ever subscribed to two or more travel-oriented publications at the same time?
By Mark Shaffer | April 6, 2006
We all have our sanctuaries, our personal spaces where we can indulge and escape. The conservatory at Volunteer Park. The Big Picture movie theater in Belltown. And for folks fixated on Japanese comics called manga, there's Kinokuniya, a bookstore in Uwajimaya Village.
By Florangela Davila | March 23, 2006
Stuff & Junk
Hill's new cut of the movie doesn't add or subtract scenes, but does impose a comic-book-like series of scene transitions that I'm not sure if I like or not. Fortunately, the disk includes a fascinating new "making-of" documentary, and has crystal-clear sound and picture.
By Geoff Carter | November 4, 2005
