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- Culture, Arts & Entertainment December 4, 2003
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Suds School
Desert Edge brewmaster Chris Hass serves up education with a head on it.
- I recently enrolled in beer school—more specifically, the Desert Edge Brewery’s monthly, one-session “Beer School” which is so modestly advertised that had I blinked on my way to the restroom at The Pub, I would have never seen...
- Culture, Arts & Entertainment November 20, 2003
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Hollow Man
Sculptor Ken Little finds substance in “what is not there.”
- Sculptor Ken Little operates in the material world—making tangible things, working with the visible, evoking the everyday. Yet he is obsessed with what he calls “what is not there”—the emptiness inside the shell, the nothingness...
- Culture, Arts & Entertainment October 16, 2003
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Straight Shots
Scott Carrier expandshis documentary vision to photography.
- Public radio producer Scott Carrier is known for storytelling—his voice as dry and unassuming as the west desert, spackled with the kicked-up dust and sand of yesterday’s hitchhikes and tomorrow’s open roads. However, Carrier is less...
- Culture, Arts & Entertainment September 11, 2003
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The Art of Therapy
Old books become personal explorations in Teresa Flowers’ art classroom.
- Last fall, photographer and mixed-media artist Teresa Flowers taught her first adult mixed-media art class at the Visual Arts Institute. Almost a year later, and two months before moving to Los Angeles, Flowers now begins her fifth, and final, session...
- Culture, Arts & Entertainment August 28, 2003
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Left of the Dial
KRCL’s Radio Active gives local talk radio a progressive voice.
- Most of the KRCL staff was in San Francisco at a national radio conference when the calls came. KRCL’s Public Affairs Director Gena Edvalson had asked Robert Nelson, longtime host of KRCL’s Smile Jamaica, and Lorna Vogt, longtime activist...
- Culture, Arts & Entertainment July 17, 2003
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Blurred Vision
Photographer Paul Hadley captures an impressionistic American West from behind the wheel.
- A perfect day is spent driving and shooting,” claims photographer Paul Hadley, his voice crackling over a cell phone connection. “I drive and shoot. There’s always a picture within 10 feet of me if I just look for it.” Appropriately...
- Culture, Arts & Entertainment July 3, 2003
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Don’t Call It Laser
Clark Planetarium takes music shows to the next level.
- Laser Floyd. Laser Zeppelin. Laser Metallica. Even if you have never experienced the nationwide cult phenomenon of the late night rock & roll laser light show, you’ve probably heard the rumors. With technology marginally more impressive than...
- Culture, Arts & Entertainment May 15, 2003
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Dating at Light Speed
A tale of two nights and eight dates in one city.
- Iam single, and I am both fascinated with and aggravated by dating—the chemistry, mystery, selection and elimination. The complete illogic and the (sometimes, literal) romp into the unknown are par for the complex course of finding a mate. Many...
- Culture, Arts & Entertainment April 17, 2003
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The Kids Are Alright
Spy Hop’s LocoMotion Film Festival gives young filmmakers credibility.
- We chose [the name] ‘LocoMotion’ because we want to move forward with this festival and in this medium,” explains Melissa Robbins of Spy Hop Productions, the engine driving the second annual LocoMotion International Film Festival. “It’s...
- Culture, Arts & Entertainment March 27, 2003
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Unreality Show
Murder mystery theater may not be art, but it sure is something.
- Here was the real mystery: What the hell was I doing here? I’d rather give up National Public Radio than be caught dead at a murder mystery dinner theater—or perhaps that would be the only condition under which I ever thought I’d willingly...
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