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The freshly stoked fire threw off a stifling heat and the flames licked the walls with eerie red shadow.

Like a virgin, my man got me all liquored up at a local watering hole just after work so I would be primed for the event.

The Gorge is going to be Nos. 52 and 53. The more daunting statistic: this run will be my first Phish shows without my longtime touring companion and mentor now simply known as “the ex.”

Adrian walked back in the start of a spring rain like she’d set fires in Chicago and knew she was getting away with it – chin bent slightly toward the pendant that dangled from her neck, hands stiff at her side and leaving footprints on the wet concrete.

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A wheat beer (a.k.a. weizenbier) recipie for summer enjoyment.

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Bliss’ Brewers Corner, a new column on Glide Magazine, that gives those people interested in brewing beer at home an idea of what is involved. Brewers Corner will feature a recipe of the month, general brewing instructions, and tips and tricks! This month a wheat beer (a.k.a. weizenbier) for my summer enjoyment

You either love Phish or you don’t. I have never seen Phish, or Trey, or any other solo project from the group, so there is no way I can be considered a fan of the band. However, my fianc

I’d love nothing more than to escape the freeze, but an extended vacation to the tropics isn’t in the cards, and I can’t afford to visit the lavish and swank spas that dot our urban landscape with the kind of frequency I’m looking for. What’s a girl to do? The drill goes like this: you practically sweat your skin off in a Russian stone sauna, with periodic buckets full of ice-cold water dumped over your head. When you can’t take any more, you leave the sauna and jump into the arctic plunge pool. When your heart starts beating again, you drag your withered body back into one of the 4 different saunas and steam rooms for more ‘schvitzing’.

It was like a symphony – the river and what sounded like a flute…or a recorder. I couldn’t stand, so I crawled to the water’s edge, reaching out for the rock and walking my hands up the side so I could look at the shadow that played the music, but they were gone. All that was left was the…

After skiing most of my life, I finally decided to try riding. On a dreary, rainy day in December, I headed up the lift with my already decent snowboarding friends. ‘If it

May 10, 1996, is the deadliest single day on Everest recorded. There were several expeditions making summit bids for Everest that day when a freak storm hit in the late afternoon.

Mount Monadnock is the most frequently climbed mountain in the world. That distinction previously belonged to mount Fuji in Japan, but since Mt. Fuji built an auto road it’s no longer able to claim most frequently climbed.

It seems that there is some legitimacy to a serious exploration into the transformational properties of sound and other vibrational energies. Thus, artists and producers within multimedia production may be able to tap into these resources and the potentially harmonious energies they may elicit. What may have been once considered New Age sophistry can be more legitimately explored and utilized artistically for experientially based immersion into the ocean of vibrational energy.

Accolades to the talented, refreshingly real 23 year old songstress – who is a brunette! And performs fully dressed!

The emphasis on perfect bodies, glistening hair and snow white teeth has continued to rise, but will talent ultimately prevail?

Reginald Stark leaned back in his padded leather armchair with a contented sigh. These were his favorite moments. He had just finished writing his latest column, and he knew it would be another great success. Reginald was a very respected music critic, with a circulation he no longer bothered to calculate. All he knew was that millions of people were affected by his brutally incisive reviews of up and coming musicians, and he recognized himself as the gateway to the elite. Many careers were stopped short and dismantled by no more than one page of Reginald’s type; very few made the cut. The audience could not see the delicate intricacies that define true musical worth, so Reginald decided to show them.

I usually hike Little Haystack once a year in early January with a buddy of mine. This year it took us 5 hours up and two down. It was a little harder than last year, and that much more exhilarating. It was snowing most of the hike, and conditions got a little crazy on the summit. Snowshoe tracks were relatively well defined.

Our resident audiophile explains that all you need are a midi controller, a computer, two programs, and stereo mixing capabilities to create spontaneous improvised music. You might want to read this one with your head lamp on.

One girl’s exploration into the world of online dating