Art in Paradise: Don't Strike Up the Band
Sometimes it’s clear that writing about something you detest will only bring more attention to it. It’s a maddening paradox. This time, I’m forging ahead in the fond hope that I can, no matter any extra attention, contribute to the early demise of...Art in Paradise: A Terrible Day
It’s been only a week or so since the 10-year commemoration of the events of Sept. 11, 2001. Already, the background static of American life has submerged thoughts of that terrible day and its appalling loss of life, instead turned to nattering about the small,...
Art in Paradise: Where Art Meets Nature
After a couple of gray weeks apparently borrowed from someone else’s monsoon season, the Valley has returned to its regularly scheduled fall. Leaves have begun filling up roadsides, and there’s finally a hint of chill in the air. It feels like New England...Art in Paradise: Highway 61 Revisited
When I was a kid, I spent many an hour peering through car windows at the bleak, perfectly flat landscape of the Mississippi Delta, where I lived for several years. Cotton fields stretched to the horizon, broken here and there by a cluster of houses or a kudzu-choked...E-Edition
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