Mother celebrated every feast day with aplomb – Shrove Tuesday with specially prepared pancakes, Halloween with monkey nuts (peanuts in the shell), bobbing for apples, and Barmbrack, which is a fruit loaf with hidden charms that has special significance for the person who discovered it in their slice. Her most elaborate planning, however, was for Christmas. The preparations in … [Read more...] about Photo Album: A Visit to Santa
December January 2002 Issue
Music Q&A: A Wake Up Call
The Cranberries performed to a small audience at the Bowery Ballroom in downtown Manhattan on August 22 to promote their new CD Wake Up and Smell the Coffee. Less than a month later New York would be the focus of the world's attention with the horrible events of September 11. Drummer and founding member Fergal Lawler talks to Elizabeth Raggi about violence, new life and … [Read more...] about Music Q&A: A Wake Up Call