My mother, a painter, once sketched me an eight-pane window looking out on a garden. Just above her signature, she inscribed a dedication along with a tag-line: “We get to do the windows.” The sketch, which hung on my bedroom wall beside my actual window …
Art is a funny thing. One man's trash is another man's treasure, one man's Philip Glass is another man's clanging cymbal, and one man's bold new post-structuralist statement is another man's chicken scratch on a canvas.
Richard Weems explores the unconventional art that challenges our very assumptions of performance and our part in it - even as spectator.
Part II of "My 5 Favorite Punk Things," Cloninger reveals the inner Punk workings of Cool Hand Luke, Bartleby the Scrivener and Vanishing Point.
Is your fate controlled by the double-helix of your DNA? Some scientists think so.
Are Keats and Pulp Fiction connected? You might be surprised by what Richard Weems has discovered.
Candace Moonshower reminisces on the travails of being only moderately musical, in "Music Lessons."
Michael Dunaway laments the death of rock-n-roll, notifying the next of kin that "James Brown is Dead".
Jeremy Worsham wonders why everyone insists on comparing a lying crook like Nixon to a lying whore, like Bill Clinton.
Jeremy Worsham takes a long, hard look at marriage – and decides to do it anyway.
