Music, Outdoors, Life
“I'm a duck on a pond, just here having a good time.” That’s how Durham, NC guitarist and songwriter Spencer Thomas Smith describes himself to me with a smile, as we share our morning coffees over Zoom, with a fresh inch of snow outside. The weather had interrupted our plans to meet in person, but… Continue reading Boogixote Q&A: Spencer Thomas Smith
“Tell me your company, and I will tell you what you are.” That line comes from Miguel Cervantes’ seminal novel Don Quixote in 1615 – namesake and phonetic inspiration for this wonderful site – and a version of this sentiment has proliferated for centuries in a number of civilizations. We’re a social species and much… Continue reading What’s So Magical About Magic Al?
Just to be near Willy Tea Taylor is to love him. He speaks with the warm embrace of a bed of coals in a fire. He resembles the warrior elf Gimli from Lord of the Rings, and laughs with the same rambunctious brawn. His songs are as intimate as a late night conversation with your… Continue reading Boogixote Q&A: Willy Tea Taylor
Virginia City, Nevada has always been a place of hardtack women. Found in the desert mountains just to the east of Reno it was the site of the first large deposit of silver ore the Comstock Lode and became one of the biggest silver boom towns of the era, a swelling zeitgeist of danger, excitement… Continue reading Q&A: Caitlin Jemma
I don't know if I've ever listened to Will Johnson in the bright of the day. His music seems to live in the softer light of the dawn and dusk, where things aren't so clear and the quiet helps you tune into the parts of your soul you ignore in the daylight. From fronting the… Continue reading Q&A: Will Johnson
I knew Steve Griggs was ripe for adventure when I met him onsite at Lightning in a Bottle 2018. It was my first time working a music festival of that size and it was our job to herd 10,000 cats (people) into their camping spots for the weekend. Mini-bikes are the cavalry and scouts in… Continue reading Q&A: Steve Griggs
The newest, grandest and gnarliest mountain bike trail in Colorado is the Palisade Plunge. It ribbons along the Grand Mesa and cuts into the Grand Valley near Palisade, CO like barbed wire, taking mountain bike thrill seekers on a 33.8-mile semi-perilous journey through the desert in some of the most remote and exposed terrain one… Continue reading Q&A: Spencer Rugland of Singletrack Trails
In the Bible it is told that upon his birth, the baby Jesus, Son of God, was visited by three magi. These wise men had followed the North Star for 12 days all the way to the town of Bethlehem to pay their respects to the new king, bestowing upon him the gifts of gold,… Continue reading Q&A: Tri Magi
Climber Damion Estrada heard the mountains calling all the way down in the limestone flats of Texas. An architecture major, he knew he’d never follow down such a path after he spent most of his time in class daydreaming about mountains out west or climbing at the climbing gym that his college had built, which… Continue reading Q&A: Damion Estrada
A black hole is a region of spacetime whose weight is so massive and dense that particles of matter cannot escape its gravitational pull, not even light particles. It grows in density as it absorbs passing particles, planets and celestial systems, all of it condensing into a single point known as singularity. Quantum mechanics and… Continue reading Q&A: King Dream
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