Living

The workhorse tool in my house is the cordless power drill. That’s true even though most of the bits for boring holes, grinding and sanding are collecting dust in the garage as our serious D.I.Y. home improvement projects are behind us (for now anyway).    Mostly we use the bits for easily driving and removing […]

Loes van Riel is an artist, and at her day job, she sells jewelry at the Downtown store Angelo. It’s somehow unsurprising, then, to find that in her studio at home, her current materials—seedpods, maple leaves, dried orchid flowers—are arranged and appreciated just like gems.    The setting certainly enhances the effect. Van Riel and […]

New Year’s resolutions bug me: much too ambitious and made in haste. To ensure success this year, try these fun-to-keep wine-related resolutions. 1. Keep a wine journal. This summer, I was a guest at a dinner honoring a wine salesman and bon vivant who won his battle against cancer. We had several remarkable wines that […]

Sons of Bill presided over a grand reopening of the Jefferson Theater near the end of 2009, and sold out the room—all while dodging a volley of undergarments. At the year’s end, does it matter how many times Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band play the John Paul Jones Arena? Maybe; I felt pretty […]

Last week we reported that restaurant business was not as bleak as it could have been in 2009 given the sorry state of the economy.

2009 was a rough year for local restaurants.

This week, longtime Live Arts artistic director John Gibson resigns from his lead role.

We can all vividly recall the moment we found out that Santa Claus doesn’t actually exist