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Chris Ware and Charles Burns are two of the brightest lights in the world of contemporary comics. Ware - whose work is marked by exquisite a...

Israeli bike enthusiast and designer Izhar Gafni built a functioning bicycle out of cardboard , and mass production is just a few months awa...

Matthew Shipp is one of the most talented jazz piano players of this era. Nearly 50, he has released a string of dazzling recordings that...

Richard Marshall reviews Bob Dylan’s Tempest . "Seventy one years ago, there was nothing like a Bob Dylan, so he invented one. An Am...

In the 1950's, the hugely influential filmmaker Chris Marker , who died earlier this year, worked for the publishing house Editions du...

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...