The Music Will Surely Live On, I, by Maurie Alioff

"It makes sense that the dance hall acts are always on Saturday. Sunday is more, like Jamaicans say, big people music, meaning people over 45." -- Richard Lafrance

Cocoa Tea

Walking Through the Trees, part III, by Kenneth Radu

It’s worth remembering that the word paradise traces its origins to the word pairidaeza, which in the ancient Iranian language Avestan, means a wall constructed to enclose cultivated grounds or a small grove of fruit trees. There is the wall again. As for Eden, that fabulous paradise lost, one need say no more.

Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall

From Kim McKenzie Galvez: On Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei

Bringing the art world together to condemn Ai Weiwei's disappearance.

From Yan Liang: The Terracotta Warriors Go West

“The First Emperor could never have dreamed that 2200 years later, his terracotta soldiers would travel to almost every corner of the world, while he still rests in his mysterious underground palace.”