Spokane-based Tom O’Day has it all figured out: If you can’t show or sell it, destroy and remake it. O’Day hates the term recycle,” as he considers the refor
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Steve Tobin, a many-faceted sculptor, began his career as a ceramist, and has returned to the earth to — well, to blow it up. Tobin fashions vessels of various siz
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If you’re like me, the peculiar selectivity of the ’80s revival has been a source of considerable perplexity and annoyance. Overlooking complex cultural touchsto
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In 1972, 8-year-old Brian Copeland and his family moved to San Leandro, a blue-collar suburb of muscle cars and steady, union incomes tucked in the eastern center of
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Border Grill. Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger don’t re-define
Mexican food; they just prepare it well, transforming the taco, the tostada, the
homely chile
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Porcelain . . . I get a faint whiff of
lavender whenever I hear the word. Porcelain is delicate, girly, vulnerable.
Porcelain belongs on doilies, in glass cabinets,
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There’s Venice… and then there’s Abbot Kinney. The strip
that stretches from Brooks to Washington seems to get haughtier by the minute.
An increasi
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Whenever a tourist cruising some stretch of Santa Monica Bay catches me
on the sand with rod and reel in hand, I’m always dumbfounded by that most predict
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Photo by Kasskara / DG
ESA-PEKKA IN EXCELSIS If anyone needed further confirmation of the strengths of Esa-Pekka Salonen, and his success in sharing those str
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When I was around 12 years old, my little brother’s best friend kissed me. The kiss was brief, and happened suddenly, while other people were out of the room
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When I was around 12 years old, my little brother’s best friend kissed me. The kiss was brief, and happened suddenly, while other people were out of the room
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(Photo by Betty Freeman)
In the music of Osvaldo Golijov I hear a robust proclamation of joy in the creative act. It is a mere dozen years since he first flashed ac
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