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...hour south of the Great Salt Lake, a two-lane blacktop crosses a cattle guard into a wild expanse of golden scrub grass. A few trailers and prefab houses, a collection of junked cars and a gas station that sells Spam and soda pop--such is the homeland of the Native American tribe known as the Skull Valley Band of Goshutes. At their peak, the Goshutes numbered 20,000. Today only a dozen of the band's 121 members live on the 18,000-acre reservation; the rest have scattered across the West in search of a better life...
...omitted as what is included. Recent hotels that echo the gospel include Jonathan Adler's Parker Palm Springs, styled to resemble the rambling estate of a madcap aunt, and Christian Lacroix's Hôtel du Petit Moulin in Paris, with suites decked out in couture illustrations and a wild mélange of texture and color. What all these disparate projects have in common is an aversion to the white-box mentality. "I like white, and you need neutral things," says Wearstler, "but to have a room all in white?I would go crazy...
...Converting to Wicca was challenging for Castillo, who was raised by conservative Southern Baptist grandparents. Castillo, who always felt slightly out of place in church, disagreed with parts of the Christian faith and turned to Wicca, a neo-pagan, earth-centered religion. “It was sort of wild [when I converted].” Castillo says. “My grandmother thought I was possessed.” Conversion was difficult, but Castillo says it no longer divides him from his family. “At the same time though, I wouldn’t be like...
...likely would spend the majority of his time on the field.It was the bottom of the first inning of a game in Manchester, Conn. when Andy Parrino, a shortstop for the Silkworms, attempted to steal second. The throw from catcher Kris Watts to Brown, who covered, took a wild skip off the playing surface.It one-hopped directly into Brown’s face—“Smoked me,” he says. He crumpled to the dirt.“So I tried to be a tough guy,” Brown says...
Canadians sometimes wonder whether Alberta is actually tethered to the rest of the country, at least temperamentally. With its right-of-mainstream attitudes and its progressive, get-it-done mentality, Wild Rose Country is looking increasingly like the wild child of the Canadian family. From their vantage point, Albertans increasingly view the rest of Canada as a crotchety, aging relative: slow moving and stuck in the past...