A New Look!
As you are most likely noticing, Dog Canyon is sporting a new look. As Dog Canyon has grown and changed over the past year, our audience has grown as has our pack of writers. To better reflect the diverse content you will find on Dog Canyon, we have changed its format. You can now find multiple articles featured on Dog Canyon on the home page. We hope it inspires you to do some hunting through the more than 600 pieces and learn something new about the world.
As with most things online, change is the only constant. You can expect the site to continue to morph and change as we get used to our new skin and as we reflect the feedback we get from our audience.
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- Christine Cox
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- Mary Lowry
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- Reba Saxon
- Glenn W. Smith
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- Joe Cutbirth
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- Catherine Avril Morris
- Steve Birmingham
- Keesha Davis
- Dawn Erin
- Dorothy Harrigan
Pop Culture Archive
Cat Power: Colors and the Kids.
By Mary Lowry | Posted on September 6, 2010 | No CommentsThis song is for when even my art form fails me. It must be the colors and the kids that keep me alive ‘Cause the music is boring me to death It must just be the colors and the kids that keep me alive ‘Cause...
Interview with Oscar Nominated Screenwriter/Director Oren Moverman
By Mary Lowry | Posted on August 24, 2010 | 2 CommentsScreenwriter Oren Moverman made his directorial debut with THE MESSENGER (2009), a film about an injured Iraq War veteran who returns home to find he has been assigned to the dreaded casualty notification duty. THE MESSENGER was distributed by Beastie Boy Adam “M.C.A”...
I’m a Joiner
By Catherine Avril Morris | Posted on July 31, 2010 | 9 CommentsIn one scene in the 1987 film Dirty Dancing, Baby (Jennifer Grey’s character) is about to go meet dashing, dangerous Johnny (played by the dear, departed Patrick Swayze), but she lies to her parents that she’s going to play charades in the West Lobby. Her...
Star Anna and the Laughing Dogs—Your New Favorite Band
By Keesha Davis | Posted on July 29, 2010 | 5 CommentsYou may not have heard of Star Anna yet, but you will. And if you have and have been fortunate enough to see them live, you know how damn lucky you are. Star is well-known around the Seattle area as a talented vocalist with a...
Nurse Jackie: on Sinners who are also Saints
By Mary Lowry | Posted on July 28, 2010 | No CommentsEdie Falco, best known for her role as Carmela Soprano, stars in the Showtime television series Nurse Jackie. In the pilot (which aired on June 8, 2009 and was Showtimes most successful premiere ever), Nurse Jackie, a no-nonsense nurse working at All Saints hospital in...
In Celebration of Gilda Radner’s Birthday
By Steve Birmingham | Posted on June 28, 2010 | No CommentsGilda Radner was born on this day, June 28th, in 1946 in Detroit, Michigan. Hooray for today and this amazing woman! As part of the original “Not Ready For Prime Time Players” Saturday Night Live cast on NBC from 1975 – 1980, this versatile performer...PJ Harvey’s Sheela-Na-Gig
By Mary Lowry | Posted on June 15, 2010 | 4 CommentsI was 15 years old and working on a sunburn at West Enfield Pool with my wild and glorious friend Nicole Emmons when she put her headphones over my ears, said, “Listen to this!” and pressed play on her cassette tape. This song blew my...![iwish[1]](http://www.dogcanyon.org/wp-content/uploads//2010/05/iwish1-155x155.jpg "iwish[1]")
PostSecret: Do You Have a Secret?
By Mary Lowry | Posted on June 9, 2010 | 11 CommentsThe recent impromptu outpouring of support on Facebook for an illegal immigrant who confessed via a postcard mailed to PostSecret that s/he planned to jump off the Golden Gate bridge prompted me to write the following homage to PostSecret. The woman on the other end...
Interview with John Waters about his new book Role Models
By Steve Birmingham | Posted on June 8, 2010 | 4 CommentsHow lucky we are that John Waters grew up with such a strong obsessive streak and that he has befriended his neuroses and harnessed the little buggers’ energy to shine a beacon of light on the margins, the misfits, the fringe, the forgotten, and on...
Haley Barbour As Mayor of “Jaws” Amity Island
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on June 6, 2010 | 3 CommentsMississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is saying the Gulf oil spill is overblown and that sensational reporting is destroying Gulf Coast tourism. Who does this remind us of? Maybe the best parallel is Amity Island Mayor Larry Vaughn, played by Murray Hamilton in the movie, Jaws....