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You have to love an art book that starts with these two sentences: “There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.” And so st...

A dessert request for an Oscar night party resulted in Tiramisù a la Oscar. Okay, it was just a standard tiramisù with an Oscar statuette m...

The show The Munich Secession and America is at the Frye Art Museum from January 24, 2009 to April 12, 2009. It’s an interesting show and d...

At the Museum of Glass in Tacoma there are a couple of ongoing exhibits this month: White Light - Glass Compositions by Daniel Clayman an...

Christ Stopped at Eboli (or in Italian Cristo si è fermato a Eboli ) was written by Carlo Levi in 1943-1944. It is a story about the time ...

It’s the 200th year of the birth of Charles Darwin (Feb 12, 1809 – 1882) and the 150th year of the publication of On the Origin of Species ...

Gardener’s Latin by Bill Neal (Front and Back Covers) Lately, I’ve been trying to use scientific names when talking about plants. It’s hard...

  It’s that time again in Seattle where you can start catching a whiff of Sarcococca confusa . For such inconspicuous flowers (they are fair...