I’ve not touched on music for a while, mostly because my survey of the best of 2014—which, let’s be honest, was a tour + more
A decade ago I worked at a downtown Spokane ad agency whose culture was, shall we say, unforgiving. Not a day passed + more
“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art + more
More odds and ends today, but this time from the worlds of art, architecture, and poetry. So, you know…no Bigfoot. + more
Does a spectral being roam the halls of Pocatello High School? Why yes—yes, it does. “Real Estate Drone Spots Bigfoot, + more
…is English, sweet English. Forget Mandarin Chinese. From “the unwritten tongue of Iron Age tribes in Denmark” two thousand years + more
So. We’ve picked the best albums of 2014 in 10 different genres. Which means that, if your Christmas shopping list + more
Art? Not art? Play the game to find out! On this day in 1903, the world got a little smaller. Here’s Orville + more
In the penultimate installment of our annual roundup of the year’s best music, we finally get around to the classical and + more
From Sleeping with One Eye Open (1964), by former United States Poet Laureate Mark Strand, who died a couple of + more
If you’ve been following this blog for any length of time—and really, why wouldn’t you?—you know we’re in the midst + more
Influential science fiction author Robert Heinlein (The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Puppet Masters) was a + more
In the third installment of our survey of the best music of 2014 (go here for part 1 and here for part 2), + more
What better way to celebrate the holiday season than eating meat? Well, actually…breakfast sausage. But I don’t think it’ll mind + more
At one point on my way to the theater to catch Interstellar last weekend—perhaps the second time in a year the missus + more