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Local album and book releases, reviewed.
Epiphany Bakes: a Baking Book by Melissa Owen
Have you ever eaten quinoa chocolate cake? I have, it came from Epiphany Cakes and it is the best darn chocolate cake I’ve ever had. Fortunately for us, it is one of the recipes that cookbook author Melissa Owen has included in her first baking book, Epiphany Bakes. Owen has chosen 60 recipes from her Nelson bakery to feature in the book and has interspersed them with profiles of individuals in her neighbourhood and community. Argenta’s Louis Bockner photographed the profile subjects and contributed the cover image. The photographs of the baked goods are by Owen.
Lunatics
Lunatics: Last Men on the Moon Brian d’Eon Home Star Press, October 2024 Nelson author Brian d’Eon’s third novel follows the fortunes of men and women—mostly historical—intimately involved in a fictional last mission to land humans on the moon. Apollo XX is NASA’s...
Are You Listening?
The buckets of fear I had to swim through to get to where I am today would make you think I can breathe underwater. I can’t. What I can do is hold my breath for a long time and hope to come above water before it’s too late.
Inspirations: Art Embracing Awareness 2
Slocan Valley artist Frantisek Strouhal’s second book brings together 44 images of his artwork, alongside poetry and prose written by Strouhal and his partner, Chantal Robert. The book also features the work of Valley writer and poet Corrina Calvert-Smith.