GOJIRA: THE WAY OF ALL FLESH (PROSTHETIC) **½ There was something uplifting about "From Mars to Sirius," the 2006 U.S. breakthrough album from French metal outfit Gojira. Heavy as it was, the group avoided metal's oppressiveness with soaring riffs and lyrics that revealed its commitment to environmentalism (and a love of sea mammals: "When we play we try to sound like a whale," singer Joe Duplantier told the Tribune in 2006). ...more

November 20, 2008

On harvest day in August at Blue Heron Vineyards, Mary and Don Johnson chose a quiet row in a far-off corner of the fields to fill their belly buckets with fruit. ...more

October 1, 2008

On harvest day in August at Blue Heron Vineyards, Mary and Don Johnson chose a quiet row in a far-off corner of the fields to fill their belly buckets with fruit. ...more

September 24, 2008

On harvest day in August at Blue Heron Vineyards, Mary and Don Johnson chose a quiet row in a far-off corner of the fields to fill their belly buckets with fruit. ...more

September 17, 2008

In a field where citrus once ripened and livestock once grazed, the Lutheran church plans to raise creatures of another kind: little lambs of God. ...more

February 9, 2008

The Christmas story is seen most often as a story of the young — the birth of the baby, Jesus, in a Bethlehem stable; the role of his virginal teenage mother, Mary; the puzzled but accepting attitude of his earthly father, a youthful carpenter named Joseph; the involvement of the worshiping shepherds, whose job was for young men (as in the Biblical accounts of Joseph and his brothers or the young David and others). ...more

December 24, 2007