Three Local Indie Authors
Local authors, Bee Bloeser, Peter Martin, and Lisa Angle talk about their new books and how they kept writing during the pandemic. Watch Video
Silver Dresser Set a Nice Little Treasure
DS sent me a silver dresser set received as a gift to her grandparents in 1900. It came from the Sturtevant Family of Framingham, Massachusetts, a famous, indeed giant, name …
Riviera Parking and Beauty Out Of Ashes
First Niko Chodor and Alex Heilbron talk about their project, Riviera Parking, a temporary exhibition space in a two-car garage on the Lower Riviera. Then Sophia Beccue discusses her exhibit, …
Two Porcelain Collectables
Anne sent me a photo of a highly decorated porcelain nut dish, signed “Wight.” Historically this came with at least four, possibly six, matching little nut dishes. Nuts at each …
Woodcut Tells Important Stories
TR sent me a huge German Expressionist type woodcut in the Medieval style. It tells two important stories in the Faust Play by Goethe. Bernd Kroeber (1942), a teacher of …
I Madonnari Chalk Festival
First Kathy Koury and Bryan Kerner from the Children’s Creative Project, and artist Ann Hefferman discuss the I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival. Then Jack Friel talks about Jack’s Furniture …
The inro and the Japanese seal
Nina sent me a funny little box her parents acquired when they lived in Japan before World War II. Nina said people used it to carry medicine, but she’s only …
Wrought Iron Very Right
CG owns a pair of gorgeous tall, three-foot candelabras. She kept them for thirty years on her back porch on an old stone garden table in Santa Barbara. I saw …
Critical Writing About Art
Debra Herrick, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Lum Art Magazine; artist Nathan Hayden; and James Glisson, Curator of Contemporary Art at Santa Barbara Museum of Art discuss critical writing about art.
Tips for Making a Fireproof Inventory
The dry wind blew in my bedroom as the clock radio (yes I still have one of those) spoke to me this morning. The Santa Barbara County Fire department today …