Oak Dresser FREE or NO?
SS sent me a turn of the last century Golden Oak dresser, in Quarter Sawn Oak, with a serpentine front. It looks like a dresser but the drawers hardly slide …
NatureTrack Film Festival
NatureTrack Film Festival Co-Directors Sue Eisaguirre and Holly Cline, and filmmakers John Mastriano and Oliver Goetzl, talk about hos how the festival pivoted to a virtual event in light of …
Antique Trunks
JE sent me two very interesting leather covered domed antique trunks, complete with leather straps. This prompted me to write about something everyone seems to have, a steamer trunk. We …
A Big Little Books and Disney
KM sent me a treasure from his mother’s childhood. A tiny little newsprint book, in a somewhat worn condition: Mickey Mouse: The Mail Pilot, Big Little Books #731 (Disney file …
Magic Castle Cabaret & The Rhythmic Arts Project
Arlene Larsen, co-founder of the Magic Castle Cabaret in Montecito, long time partner of Hollywood’s The Magic Castle founder, and an artist talks about her line of masks. Then Eddie …
Vintage Couture: It’s Back!
As woman who loves flashy clothes, when EJ emailed me a photo of a 1980s “CD de Christian Dior Robes de Soir” ball gown, with huge shoulder pads and sixteen …
Grace Howell Gentlewoman Painter
Another fabulous piece in MMG’s art collection, signed Grace Howell in the 1930’s, caught my eye. In the first two quarters of the twentieth century, a career female artist member …
COVID-19 Restrictions for Performing Artists
Kostis Protopapas, founder of the Performing Arts Initiative and Artists Director of Opera Santa Barbara, talks about the COVID-19 restrictions for performing artists.
Pewter Plates with a Royal Feel
EW sent me two scalloped pewter plates, one with a lion and the other portraying a lizard or dragon. Both are pewter, eighty-five percent or so tin with lead and …
How to Date an Ancestor Portrait
MMG crammed many lives into one glorious one as a tennis pro, interior designer, and antiques dealer, and now wants to downsize. She sent me photos of her collections. One …