If you are a loyal reader of the cactus, you’ve noticed something different — and I’m not just talking about how Jim Montana is full time ’round these parts.
I’m talking about the artwork.
The category, which has been a cactus staple since the very beginning, has moved to Wednesday. What does that mean, you wonder. Well, […]

Today we wish a huge happy birthday to Sooz, sometimes known as Susan, always known as the poker writer.
She turns the big 2-8 today … one year shy of the dreaded 29. You know how women get. They’re so scared of turning 30, they turn 29 about eight times before finally admitting it. Sure, age […]

When you’re on fire, what they teach you is to stop, drop, and roll. And that’s what we’re doing at the cactus right now.
As Jim Montana humorously pointed out to me, it seems like the catucs is suffering the effects of a writers’ strike. Not everyone of course, but a lot of the writers are […]

Part of creating the cactus was to give writers the freedom to write. I wasn’t a music writer at the time, but I wanted to be. So I started a site where I could have the independence to do what I wanted. Other writers, who needed experience to get a job but needed a job to […]

Hello boys and girls.
You may have noticed there have been quite a few shakeups over here at the cactus lately. We didn’t have this much downtime during last summer, but it seems this summer is turning into a lack of content.
If you’ve noticed that, and it’s KILLING you, drop us an email and let us […]

I’ve been very fortunate here at the cactus to have two incredible food writers. Lanie, and before her Michelle, kept my mind filled with recipes that — don’t tell them — are sometimes out of my league.
I can get Lanie’s butter column this week, but usually I read the recipe and just wonder and hope […]