Artists of the Week: FARrAGO
By Kerry Freek Photos by Rachel Kahn This week, I spoke with two artists from FARrAGO art collective, Catherine Toth and Cara Bleskie. The word “farrago” means a mixture, a hodgepodge, a medley, and...
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Ten Reasons to Work at a Small Independent Suburban Gas Station By Rachel Kahn 10. You are guaranteed to be no more than 50 feet away from a police or fire station. That is because most suburbanite...
View ArticleTales of Earthsea Hidden Gem’d. Kinda
Tales of Earthsea Directed By Goro Miyazaki Studio Ghibli, 2006 It's amazing that Hayao Miyazaki's son somehow acquired rights to Ursula K. Leguin's Earthsea trilogy (now in five parts). I'm not sure...
View ArticleArtist of the Week: Mathew Borrett
By Rachel Kahn I met Mathew Borrett at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition last month, sitting in a booth surrounded by drawings one could almost literally lose oneself in. Fittingly, Mathew Borrett...
View ArticleArtist of the (Two) Week(s): Mathew Borrett, Part II
By Rachel Kahn A few weeks ago, Mathew Borrett answered some of my questions regarding his work - so many questions, in fact, that you'll have to click here to read the first half of the interview....
View ArticleFive Alternatives to Smoking
These methods are for use at social gatherings only. The author is not responsible for any attempts to use these methods at the office, the studio, at school, or anywhere people might try to take you...
View ArticleWarm And Spreading: The ‘08 Winter Mix
Warm And Spreading, Like Wetting The Bed Allana's Winter Mix '08 As a semi-prelude to the best-of-2008 listmaking that's to come, I introduce my winter mix of 2008 (not necessarily representative of...
View ArticleHidden Gem Review: William Gibson’s Virtual Light
Virtual Light [Viking Press, 1994] By William Gibson By Rachel Kahn I'm that reader who, upon starting a gripping novel, can hardly maintain a conversation in the real world on any topic but said book,...
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