Musicke Antiqua
Among the many pleasures of the holiday season is the musical bounty it brings. From traditional carols to seasonal pop standards, music provides the…
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Smartphones and Funny Little Films
The world continues to shrink, not only passing before us ever more colorfully and rapidly on computer and television screens, but appearing regularly on…
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Life by Design
We live by design. This is not a philosophical statement, but a literal one. Virtually everything with which we come in contact during our…
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A Postmodern Romance
If the purpose of art, as John Cheever once observed, is to impose order on chaos, Taiyo La Paix may have been saved by…
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Drawing Nothing
As an artist, Lori Raines has a peculiar wish. “I would like to draw nothing at all,” Lori says. But to draw nothing, to…
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Model A Citizen
Eighty years ago, the famously inventive Henry Ford had a problem. He was losing market share to upstart rivals like General Motors and their…
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Wake Up And Smell The Coffee
In October of 1955, newspaper readers came across a letter from someone signed “Non-Eligible Bachelor,” bemoaning his unmarried fate. The advice columnist to whom…
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Wings of Support
The dream of flying is as old as dreaming itself, and as young as any number of youngsters watching a kite flutter against a…
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Odyssa Speaks
There are journeys outward and journeys inward. For Hendersonville-born author and hiker Jennifer Pharr Davis, the best of the former lead to the latter,…
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Guerilla Photographer, Urban Explorer
Guerilla photography may be the best way to describe Walter Arnold’s passion for recording little known, often abandoned, and sometimes downright dangerous subjects. There…
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