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…)

It was in more than one way that fictional character Charles Foster Kane shared a verisimilitude with real-life media mogul William Randolph Heart (even if it was a hostile parody of the man) (more…)