Setting up an easel at concerts and inviting people to watch as you paint (or sculpt, or arrange flowers, or whatever art form you do that is more typically hidden from prospective audiences) is…different. (more…)

Thousands of years ago, in a fertile plain somewhere between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the descendants of an ark builder looked into each other’s eyes and then up towards the heavens. (more…)

This year, the hottest toy isn’t a string rag doll like those that ancient Egyptian kids played with or a button-collecting game popular with kids of the Middle Ages. This Christmas, the hottest toy on every kid’s list is a robotic hamster. (more…)

In a scene from Martin Scorsese’s film about Bob Dylan, No Direction Home Joan Baez laughs while telling the story of the master songwriter composing lyrics. Baez says that Dylan told her that some day scholars will explain what these words mean, (more…)

If journalism is the first draft of history, then cinema is its editor, patrolling the border of our minds between what is accurate and what is glorified and romanced. (more…)

If you could design a car right now from scratch, that could look any way you wanted, any shape or design, what would it look like? No matter what crazy ideas you started out with, chances are (more…)

A Rebiours. It is the title to J.K. Huysmans’s 1884 novel that loosely translates from French into English as “against the grain” or “against nature.” (more…)

In the beginning, there was silence. The Earth was formed and there was nothing but Adam and Eve. The Garden of Eden must have been a tranquil place where the silence was only broken for speech that was absolutely necessary. (more…)

Green Porno is a revolutionary series created by well-know actress Isabella Rossellini. The combination of ‘porno’ and ‘Isabella’ may sound very suggestive, but don’t be mistaken, I don’t think it will turn you on (more…)

It was in more than one way that fictional character Charles Foster Kane shared a verisimilitude with real-life media mogul William Randolph Heart (even if it was a hostile parody of the man) (more…)