FestivalsTucker Gumber sold his house, packed a suitcase and now devotes his life to festivals, having spent 460 days dancing, camping and listening to live music
The first time Tucker Gumber attended a music festival, he was both enchanted and a touch horrified. It was winter 2011 at Colorado’s Snowball, and with flurries falling lightly against the Rocky Mountain sunset, Big Gigantic playing onstage and a crowd of fans playing tag in the field, Gumber knew festival culture, in all its heady whimsy, was for him. Read More...
Fewer than 350 Australian painted-snipes are thought to remain but the reason there are so few is not entirely clear because researchers lack knowledge about the species. Photograph: David StoweFewer than 350 Australian painted-snipes are thought to remain but the reason there are so few is not entirely clear because researchers lack knowledge about the species. Photograph: David StoweBirdsSightings are so rare that no one has recorded the call of these elusive waders but a mission has begun to finally learn where they go when they disappear Read More...
Once grandchildren arrive, a family’s entire dynamic shifts – and tensions inevitably arise, says the Oldie’s agony aunt (and grandmother), kicking off this series of You be the judge Published: 6:00 AM ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEoKyaqpSerq96wqikaKSZm7KiusOsq7KklWTApr7InqposZ%2BqeqOxjK2fnmWaqrGosQ%3D%3D