Aug 30, 2024; Detroit, Michigan, USA; Detroit Tigers shortstop Zach McKinstry (39) is tagged out at third by Boston Red Sox Nick Sogard (75) in the fifth inning at Comerica Park. Mandatory Credit: Rick Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports The Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers are on the outside looking in for an American League wild-card…
Jul 14, 2024; Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Baltimore Orioles third base Jordan Westburg (11) is safe at third as New York Yankees third baseman Oswaldo Cabrera (95) fields the ball during the second inning at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Mandatory Credit: James A. Pittman-USA TODAY Sports Cedric Mullins ripped a two-out, two-run double in the…
The best of California is not its famous cities or coastline. The most authentic version of the state is its freshwater, in its many wild forms. At least, for my family. My partner Caroline Clements and I write about water and wilderness and have spent much of the last 10 years documenting swimming around the…
In Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book, “Where the Wild Things Are,” the Wild Things are hardly mild. When the main character, a little boy named Max, meets these monsters, he first notices their “terrible” roars, teeth, eyes and claws. A rumpus ensues, and Max comes to learn that these monsters aren’t terrible at all. They’re…
Dwayne Jarman is often tinkering with the wild rice machines in his garage in this tree-lined suburb of Detroit. He has threshers to crack the hulls and winnowers to blow the chaff. He smiles and flips the switch. It’s time to process last summer’s harvest from his Anishinaabe homeland near Traverse City in Northern Michigan….
As the Israeli military campaign to destroy Hamas pummeled his neighborhood in northern Gaza, reducing buildings to rubble and forcing residents to flee, the Palestinian laborer realized that he was running out of food. The shops had closed, the markets had emptied and fighting prevented supplies from reaching them. So he and his remaining neighbors…
I’d been waiting for months when I finally got the call from Alaska last March: Wild ice was on. A roughly two-week high-pressure window of cold and clear weather had frozen Portage Lake, the terminus of Portage Glacier, some 50 miles southeast of Anchorage, and it was solid enough to skate on its wild —…
