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Today is the birthday of Trappist monk, social activist and poet Thomas Merton , born January 31, 1915. All classic shapes have vanishe...

Seattle street artist No Touching Ground is busily moving through South America, posting gorgeous images and getting attention. A few ...

A great weekend of film coming up for the younger set and the adults who love them.  On Thursday night, the Children’s Film Festival op...

Antonio Frasconi always believed that art should come from a place deep within one’s self. Born in 1919 in Buenos Aires to parents who ...

A poem for Martin Luther King day, by Langston Hughes That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hid...

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...