Month: June 2009
My Ten-Day Visit to the Dark Side
An author and reader cheats on her oldest love, books, with a hot new beauty, the Amazon Kindle.
In 1999, my husband gave me one of the first electronic readers, a Rocket eBook. With its capacity to hold forty books, books I could cart wherever I...
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Curator’s Eye
Mirror Effect | Margot Quan Knight, photographer
selected by Stefano Catalani, curator, Bellevue Arts Museum
BB, photo courtesy of the artist
The quilt is made of glass mirrors that I cut and glued onto fabric in an eight-point-star pattern. I was...
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Happy Hour to the Rescue
More from our Hard Times Survival Guide: Theatres lure younger crowds with cheap tickets and free booze, not just to earn money today but to guarantee an audience tomorrow.
Illustration by Andrew Saeger for City Arts
The economic clouds continue to...