catapult magazine

Items tagged city

• Our towns

  *cino community members respond to questions about their hometowns.

• Having a ball in my hometown

  A local celebration provides an opportunity to reflect on love of place.

• Where are you from?

  On the journey from a place of worry to a place of contentment.

• Life’s bistro

  A review of the film Avenue Montaigne.

• Grant’s recommendations 11.30.07

  Two documentaries, with Sicko telling the sad story of U.S. healthcare and Let the Church Say Amen telling the story of a small congregation in Washington, D.C.

• Sinking down

  On gaining a "sense of place" through knowledge of nightmares.

• Zooming out

  A book review of The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson.

• Out of darkness: A Mumbai story

  A review of the film Slumdog Millionaire, which tells the story of a boy who rises to fame on India's hottest game show.

• Life on the threshold

  The nature poetry of Liberty Hyde Bailey and the igniting of an urban imagination.

• Toward an urban naturalism

  A review of
Crow Planet:
Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness by Lyanda Lynn Haupt.

• Ten odd and wondrous things our family has seen this year within a block of our house

  Under the influence of urban naturalism, an inner-city neighborhood can be a wonder-full place.

• The invisible border

  Mapping a neighborhood by streets, class and color -- and hoping for a better way home.

• Home is (not always) where the heart is

  A mother reflects on her family's longing for a better home.

• Finding good words in bad breath

  On the effort to create spaces that welcome all people.

• A playful revolution

  Rediscovering play as a young adult in a new city.

• Something to give

  Culture Make Sale connects the world to Three Rivers, Michigan.

• Autonomy and the red line

  Reimagining the good life in Chicago in light of Lazarus and Dante.

• Vanya

  A reflection on the concerns of a man and a woman of the Ratwa Bhil tribe in central India.

• City girl, small town

  From concrete California to Little House on the Prairie in Colorado.

• E pluribus unum

  At home in Washington, D.C., next door or across town.

• Your city is calling

  An love letter to Austin, Texas, in all of its incarnations.