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I've been away on my annual Barcelona sojourn for the last 4 weeks, and have been dutifully ignoring the web while paying close attentio...

Today, June 15, is Kabir Jayanti, the birthday of the mystic poet Kabir . It’s an official holiday in the state of Himachal Pradesh in India...

I do love reading Peter Carey . The Australian fiction writer has published eleven novels and three volumes of short stories, and to a one t...

According to history, William Faulkner originally wanted wanted to publish his masterpiece The Sound and the Fury using colored inks to sig...

If you're looking for me tomorrow afternoon, I'll be at the Big Dig Record Show on Capitol Hill, 'cause you know I need more r...

According to a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine , coffee extends your life. Drink six or more cups per day, and you have ...

With work and life and an incredible dose of warm sunny weather, I've been M.I.A. from this bloggie world. For all that, nothing in the ...

This should be good - the first Seattle " Pedaler’s Fair " takes place this weekend, April 21st and 22nd, at the intersection of N...

by Hart Crane We make our meek adjustments, Contented with such random consolations As the wind deposits In slithered and too ample pockets....

In the summer of 2007 history professor Louis Mendoza set out from Santa Cruz on a bicycle with the idea of seeing first-hand the extent of...

Seattle's New Mystics have grand ambitions. The polymathic group of street artists, painters, tattooists, actors and dancers has produc...

I know Jim likes these. Luminaris is a new stop motion short from Argentine director Juan Pablo Zaramella which very cleverly uses shadows...

A woman named "Katrine" has been living in Barcelona, seeking out street art and carrying a camera. It's not an uncommon way t...

by Marge Piercy , born on this day, March 31 1936. Girls buck the wind in the grooves toward work in fuzzy coats promised to be warm as fur....

Like all of the art that comes from the Degenerate Art Ensemble , their blog is smart, sometimes grating, and always surprising. The musici...

by Lawrence Ferlinghetti                I am waiting for my case to come up and I am waiting for a rebirth of wonder and I am waiting for so...

The Badgermin is exactly what it sounds like: a taxidermied badger with a theremin built into it. * Luis Bunuel makes a dry martini * ...

This is beyond cool: the Homunculus Nebula and Quantum Foam together again. Scale of the Universe created by Cary and Michael Huang . Open ...

Philadelphia photographer Zoe Strauss has teamed up with the Philadelphia Museum of Art to present her photography in a uniquely powerful ...

Real Comet Press was founded in 1981 by Seattle arts activist, and owner of the legendary Comet Tavern , Cathy Hillenbrand. This prescient e...