A New Zimbabwe

A New Zimbabwe

*** A New Zimbabwe A Christmas road trip through a land of contrasts   by James Collector and James Roditi   We picked up Renée, our seasoned 4×4 Toyota Prado in Lusaka, spent a day gathering supplies, and were on the road to Livingstone when we...
Covering Elton John’s GYBR/Mike Goldstein

Covering Elton John’s GYBR/Mike Goldstein

  The making of the album cover artwork for Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Interview with David Larkham by Mike Goldstein, Contributing Writer Founder/Album Cover Hall of Fame Originally posted April 18, 2014, with updates added April, 2018 Like...

Mark Walker/Creative Nonfiction

  My Life in the Land of the Eternal Spring: The Coffee Plantation   By Mark D. Walker Contributor Though I had lived and worked in Guatemala for seven years, it was a brief encounter with my young daughter, Michelle, on the San Francisco Miramar coffee...

Summer Sun Fun Zehn

  Ten Top Tunes for Summer Listening   For music-loving polyglots, this is a summer listening list for you. Everyone else — steer clear of falling stars.    by Fred Roberts Ragazine Music Editor Category: Best song in the highly competitive...

Summer Take Four

        by Fred Roberts Music Editor My favorite acquisitions of the last months are quite divergent in respect to one another. There’s music from the country of Sudan (Abu Obaida Hassan). The US duo Bebe & Serge who were quite well-received in...