Setting up an easel at concerts and inviting people to watch as you paint (or sculpt, or arrange flowers, or whatever art form you do that is more typically hidden from prospective audiences) is…different. (more…)

In a scene from Martin Scorsese’s film about Bob Dylan, No Direction Home Joan Baez laughs while telling the story of the master songwriter composing lyrics. Baez says that Dylan told her that some day scholars will explain what these words mean, (more…)

In the beginning, there was silence. The Earth was formed and there was nothing but Adam and Eve. The Garden of Eden must have been a tranquil place where the silence was only broken for speech that was absolutely necessary. (more…)

Matthew Weiner isn’t chasing David Chase anymore. Weiner caught him.

At the recent Emmy Awards Weiner’s show “Mad Men” garnered several accolades including one for writing. It is in the design of the script, the planning of each word said onscreen (more…)

Music is defined as the art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. Noise, however, is (more…)

Rudolph Schindler’s Kings Road House once stood out because, in an era that prized prominence, it settled unpretentiously into the landscape. Now, the house stands out precisely because it doesn’t stand out. (more…)

Weird, wacky and subversive are just three adjectives to describe the Seattle based comedy troupe, Circus Contraptions. A bit like a circus sideshow on hallucinogenic, the band of gypsy’s cleverly mix original musical numbers with an array of jugglers, sword swallowers, aerial acrobatics, burlesque and (more…)