THE ANIMALS
We are all animals, and we react to the way we experience the world. What old hurts have us lashing out, keeping us in intractable pain? What do we need to unravel and unwind in order to move forward?

ARTWORK Darla Jackson, Christopher Spencer

OPENING SALVO
“While You Were Out” // Is is time to give our divisive species back to the animals, or might we find it within ourselves to use our ability to reason together and respect one another to find a way forward? // Editor’s Notes by Heather Shayne Blakeslee

STREETVIEW
Recommendation // “Be the Wolf” // Lobo Mau celebrates ten years of slow fashion
Destination // “South Jazz Club” // One of the city’s only adult music venues is a destination from any direction
Constellations // “The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker” // Diana’s Lu returns to favorites Quetta Halal Market, Sarcone’s, and Duross & Langel
Root Recipe // Earl Grey Gin and a Blueberry Basil Smash

ART & IDEAS
“Headful of Snakes: Inside the Mind of Darla Jackson” // Profile by Sarah Rose Etter
“Death and Icecream: Leonard Baskin vs. Baskin Robins” // An appreciation of Leonard Baskin by Heather Shayne Blakeslee with illustrations by Christopher Spencer
”The Animals, the People, the Machines” // Joshua Mehigan offers notes on poems by Edwin Muir and Nathanial Rudavsky-Brody
“No, Liberal Lefties are Not Right Wing” // Analysis of political tribes by Helen Pluckrose
”The Cave” // Erotica by Neely B.

SWITCHBACKS
“Card Carrying Karen” // After decades of intractable pain, a 70-year-old friend tries medical marijuana // Essay by Heather Shayne Blakeslee