This month's cover was made amazing by collage artist Deborah Shapiro's timely reflection titled "Political Quagmire." Inside, we check out the latest work by Ma'Sue Productions, see what's up with Matt Miller's Earth Magic, get in the loop with Knight Foundation Arts Challenge winner "the Optics of Memory", find out (with the Akron Zoo's help) what it takes to survive a capybara attack, learn how Rock Mill Climbing started, march on Washington with women from Akron, review the latest albums from G.S. Schray and Luv Abstract, meet the folks that the Akron Snow Angels know, discover the trick to being nice to your sound guy, visit with the front and back of the house at Arnie's Public House - formerly SRO, get the Big Idea behind local filmmaker Raquel Hagman's "Women Proclaim", and we ask local addiction treatment experts how the repeal of Obamacare will impact the battle against the opioid epidemic.