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Galería Abierta is a unique gallery located alongside a side street in a busy market district of Barcelona. In June of this year, the geniu...

In the morning, Pepita's beautiful niece Emma was born. In the evening, we took advantage of our Christmas presents of tickets to see Mu...

La Puntual is the only theatre in Barcelona dedicated exclusively to puppetry, aka "putxinellis." The tiny theatre, "a perfo...

A perfect little Christmas gift from our generation's Irving Berlin, Tom Waits. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.

While the street art of Amsterdam is characterized by clean design and an attention to detail, the graffiti in Barcelona has a fierce urgen...

Through a lucky series of events, we had a cup of tea on Spuistraat in one of the last remaining squats in Amsterdam. From the early 70'...

Boekie Woekie ("Bookie Wookie") is one of the world's foremost speciality stores for handmade and limited edition books by ar...

Pepita and I spent 4 active days in Amsterdam. Pretty much every waking hour was spent on the streets, admiring the vibrant culture of this ...

Once again , I'm off to Barcelona for a month of food, family, and Mediterranean winter sunshine. I'm bringing a few projects this t...

Local renaissance man Michael Hall, who the Stranger called "the Baudelaire of Seattle" and "the Holy Ghost of Northwest Hiph...

28 years ago today, on December 8 1980, pop icon and peace activist John Lennon was killed in New York city. 11 years before that, in 1969,...

Gotta say, the fifth Punk Rock Flea Market was a doozy. At the last minute, 4 unexpected vendors showed up and one dropped out, bringing us...

It's a sign of the times. The extraordinary painters and printmakers at Los Angeles' La Mano Press have decided to call it quits. F...

The other show I saw in Baltimore which left a strong impression was a series of handmade mechanical toys by the brilliant British kinetic s...

A very nice concrete poem /stencil from Rob Giampietro, written in honor of pioneering fluxus poet Emmett Williams , who died last year . T...

It's less than a week until the Holidaze Edition of the Punk Rock Flea Market , going down on December 6 at the Underground Events Cente...

Beginning this Friday, SIFF Cinema is showing the film The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine , a documentary on 96-year old French scu...

My friend Douglas Paasch died suddenly on Saturday. His most recent show, the Wizard of Oz, had opened the day before at the Seattle Childr...

While in Baltimore, I saw a small and miraculous exhibit of Dalton Ghetti 's work at the American Visionary Arts Museum . Ghetti makes ...

I’ve been around Baltimore and DC for the past few days, and to say the least, the mood here is ebullient. Everywhere I go, people are pract...