Hello, all! Things are going well down here in Phoenix, and Burnside is back in the swing of things. For over a month, our email here at the site was not working. We just got it up and going with the invaluable help of Coach Culbertson over at Relief Journal, so a million thanks to him. What that means...

I attended my sister Kailyn’s graduation a few weeks ago, outside in the bowl at Franklin High School in Portland. She was the last in a long line of Quakers. Fourteen years straight, a Green attended the school in Southeast Portland. Nostalgia ran high. I remember my graduation in 1998 like...

I’ve been a Christian for almost twenty years, and I am just learning about repentance. That is not to say I haven’t ever repented, but there is so much more to it than repenting of my sin nature once at the age of four. It all started for me in the book of Jonah. Jonah spends a lot of time...

Susan Isaacs has been very busy. First, she’s acting in a series of ads for Cisco. You can view all of them here, but she’ll be posting the latest installments when they come available. Here’s the newest one: Also, you can check out a series of similar videos here. But that’s...

Honestly, given what I’ve read in interviews and other long-form pieces about My Morning Jacket, I get the feeling that Jim James really doesn’t read reviews very often. If he does read them, he probably isn’t paying much attention to them. It’s not that he’s pulling out...

Consistency. That’s the name of the game for Aimee Mann. I once wrote, somewhere I can’t find, that Mann possesses an otherworldly grasp of melody. She casts out hummable tunes rivaled only by a combined Lennon/McCartney. Like clockwork, every third year yields a record of tight pop perfection....

Death Cab For Cutie is a contradiction if there ever was one–a quartet with the heart of a indie band signed to Atlantic Records. Despite the fears that the DCFC guys were “selling out”, the band’s first major label release (‘Plans’- 2005) went platinum and even...

Having been recently disappointed by Infinite Jest and The Emperor’s Children, both hugely acclaimed novels, I was extremely skeptical of White Teeth at first. Given its length (over 400 pages) and hype (one of Time Magazine’s Best 100 Novels), it looked like I was headed towards another...

Ladies and gentlemen, Thanks for sticking with us the last few weeks! It’s been crazy around these parts, and we regret not being able to provide you with consistent issues. But, you see, I was busy. First, I got married. Here’s an incredible video Don Miller put together from footage...

Let’s say you’re talking with a friend, and that friend just returned from a trip to Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (That sounds strange.) You’re chatting about the trip, wondering how it went, and he begins to tell you of a meal he ate in Amsterdam. He tells you it’s the best thing...