Nunatak: Music and Writing of Dennis Rea
   Live at the Forbidden City

"Live at the Forbidden City is the story of an unconventional American guitarist who stumbled into a series of improbable musical adventures in China and Taiwan, playing in places where few, if any, progressive Western musicians had played before... My experiences playing music in China and Taiwan unlocked doors into Chinese culture that few travelers, diplomats, students, or businesspeople are fortunate enough to enter, giving me a singular perspective on a culture in the throes of one of the most accelerated transformations in its long history. At times, as in my account of the fighting in Chengdu on June 4, 1989, the events recounted here are deeply sobering; just as often, the sometimes absurd cultural collisions described in this story are downright comical."

Bike Works -
Community Bike Shop

"One day in 8th grade, I was walking with my friend Mikaelin and he mentioned something about working at a bicycle shop. Since we were right by the shop at the time, we went in there and talked to a guy named Chris.

"We asked them if they had job opportunities and Chris told us that they had a program called Earn-a-Bike.  For only $20 and permission from your mom or dad, you can participate. He explained that you take a class about bicycle repair (a different part each week). Then during Earn-a-Bike you work on bikes and they pay you a bicycle part by part."

- D. J. Smith, Earn-A-Bike graduate, Fall 1998