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Original article can be found at Tahoe Daily
Originally published on April 23, 2010
By Staff

An exhibition by photographer Peter Goin called “Fire!” will be on display through June 18 at the Haldan Art Gallery at Lake Tahoe Community College.

Goin is a professor of art in photography and videography at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the author of “Tracing the Line: A Photographic Survey of the Mexican-American Border,” “Nuclear Landscapes,” “Stopping Time: A Rephotographic Survey of Lake Tahoe with Essays by C. Elizabeth Raymond and Robert E. Blesse” and “Humanature.”

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Original article can be found at New York Times
Originally published on April 21, 2010
By Richard Bernstein

NEW YORK — How nice to see that New York Magazine, one of the what’s-trendy weekly magazines here, has chosen my neighborhood, Park Slope in Brooklyn, as the best place to live in New York City.

To be sure, Park Slope has become a pretty nice place over the past 25 years, as the neighborhood, like New York in general, has experienced its long turnaround. The fear of walking out our front doors was replaced by pride in our security, and all the amenities that define the urban professional middle class — trendy restaurants, bicycle and jogging paths, yoga and pilates studios, organic food emporia and the like — proliferated, while real estate prices stayed well below those in Manhattan. (Read on …)

Original article can be found at the Headwaters news website
Originally published on March 11,2010
By Steve Woodruff

After a sensational day of fishing for Yellowstone cutthroats back in the 1930s, my grandfather fought heroically outside a bar in Gardiner, Mont., with a man who insisted nothing but a rainbow trout was worth catching. (Read on …)

Original article can be found at the Denver Post Website
Originally  published on April 1,2010
By Bill Husted

BAR: THE CORNER BAR

The Corner Bar at McCormick’s Fish House and Bar sees the action. Picture windows face Wazee and 17th streets — the best way to see whether it’s snowing. For when it is, Irish coffees are $1. The nightly happy-hour menu approaches the ridiculous, with a big, juicy cheeseburger going for $2.95. The stained-glass windows behind the long bar depict a peaceful pastoral scene — perfect for the 12 stool-sitters to study when not watching the two flat-screen TVs. Before McCormick’s took it over in 1987, it was a hippie hangout, and it still holds onto that relaxed vibe. (Read on …)