Decanter With a Special Shape

JE owns an elegant Art Deco green glass decanter trimmed with gold leaf with an eleven inch clear glass stopper. It likely originated in Italy or Czechoslovakia in the 1930s …

Our Family’s Boston Sharpener

Few illustrious tourist attractions in Ohio rank higher than the Reverend Paul Johnson’s Pencil Sharpener Museum located in the middle of the State. The reverend’s wife donated it after he …

Pair of Standing Nodding Magots

A plump grotesque porcelain figure in the Asian style, the head nods, hands bob up and down, tongue lolls in the smiling mouth. We call this a nodding magot, a …

Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors

Actors Casey J. Adler and Regina Fernandez talk about Ensemble Theatre Company‘s production of Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors through Sunday, October 27.

Grandparents Spanish Lady Painting

EF, who receives my monthly “Stuff-Whisperer” newsletter, read that I visiting my brother in Malaga, Southern Spain the first two weeks of September. Because I experienced Andalusian culture recently she …

The Nightmare Before Christmas Light Trail

The world of realistic visual arts recently gained a new interactive, immersive seasonal experience. Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Light Trail takes place until November 30 at New York’s …