Cat
Tracks - Nature - photos,
art, wilderness,
wildlife, ecology,
environment, adventure,
skills, poetry
AltNews
Room - Politics -
9-11 made for TV? Behind the scenes;
Oil and Blood: Covert and Overt US Foreign
Policy; The Aftermath--in Afghanistan
Cougar's
Den - Books & Reviews -
ebooks, book
reviews, order, video
reviews, music cd's, favorites,
search
Rhythm
Section - Drumming - drum
culture, djembe rhythms, cd's,
lessons, exercises,
jamming, dance,
audio, drum
rhythms book, links
Writer's
Group - Literature - editing
services, hypertext,
column, essays,
magazine, alternative
fiction, creative
nonfiction, poetry, ezine
Spirit
World - Alternative Spirituality
- balance, oracles,
quotes, chakras,
meditations, books
From
the editor’s desk…
The
Millennial Mirror Mystery
We look
in the millennial mirror. A new age sparkles with promise -- and finds
us, caught in conventional patterns, with too many of the same old problems:
disappearing
nature- information
overload
- shallow
entertainment
- predictable
literature
- empty
spiritual life
What’s
wrong with the picture in the mirror? Too many choices, problems and
promises? Not enough common sense solutions? Too many petrified institutions,
beside-the-point contributions?
It’s
time to get back to the roots, old roots and new.
Alternative
Culture online magazine offers you the tools to
cut through the chaos and help you get balanced and real. We offer a
custom selection of information and entertainment--advice and insights,
resources and reviews--to help you find effective down-to-earth approaches
to a creative lifestyle.
A
Healthy Slice of Alternative Culture
"The
information and anecdotes presented [here] are fascinating, and they
obviously come from somebody who knows what he's talking about."
--"Broken
Pencil," The Guide to Alternative Culture in Canada
Any popular
culture journal online, or web search directory, or even "alternative
culture" vertical portal will list the general version of the
topics covered here. This Alternative Culture magazine doesn’t try to
be all things to all people. Let's first turn off the mass media and
recycle the icons of pop culture. Then we'll slice across the grain,
for a view of the best of the rest.
"Alternative
Culture" in this incarnation is not the same as "popular culture,"
definitely not mainstream; yet it’s more moderate than counterculture,
more sunny than underground and more grounded than new age. This Canadian
cougar strays from convention, yet camps independent also of the radical
fringe.
A living
alternative culture asks,
"How
do we survive, as individuals and together, day-to-day and in the
long term?"
"How
do we celebrate, and choose what is worth celebrating?"
"How
do we find more balance in our lives?"
Let’s begin
the journey to find out.
--Nowick
Gray
Cougar
WebWorks 
An 
Nature:
too tame or too wild?