Scalping knives qualify for antiques appraiser's wall of weird (The Journal News)
The Rev. Rayner Wilson Hesse knows antiques. A tip-off is that he has a jeweler's glass attached to his key chain, which makes it all the easier for him to closely inspect the nearly invisible but telltale numerals and letters etched into watches, pottery, china and other supposedly rare objets d'art....more...Bartenders shake and stir their way through cocktail history (San Francisco Chronicle)
Because of their proximity to sticky liquids, well-used cocktail books often don't hold up over time, which may be why vintage cocktail books from the 1860s through the 1940s are rare and highly collectible. These books hold more value than the recipes inside... ...more... Golden silence (Calendarlive.com)
Afewyears ago, I vowed never again to read, let alone review, another movie history that begins with accounts of the Praxinoscope, the Kinetoscope, the Mutoscope and all those other toys for grown-ups that constitute the prehistory of the motion picture....more... The Perkins Persona (The Post and Courier)
SAN FRANCISCO ? Tom Perkins co-founded the firm that helped spawn Google, Amazon and Genentech. He married ? and divorced ? romance novelist Danielle Steel. And his resignation from Hewlett-Packard Co.'s board revealed the spying that rocked that Silicon Valley institution. ......more... South Lake High plans 'Seussical the Musical' (Orlando Sentinel)
Characters from the children's books of Dr. Seuss will come to life during South Lake High School Performing Arts Department's production of Seussical the Musical this weekend in the school's auditorium, 15600 Silver Eagle Road, Groveland....more... Whale of a Life: Island Girl Sparks Storybook (Vineyard Gazette)
Sixteen years ago, artist Susan Convery Foltz went out for something rare in Edgartown, an evening at the opera....more... MUSEUMS (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
BROOKGREEN GARDENS, U.S. 17, between Murrells Inlet and Pawleys Island, is home to the Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington sculpture garden, featuring more than 550 works of American sculpture. The Lowcountry History and Wildlife Preserve houses waterfowl, river otters, alligators, foxes and deer in their native habitats. The Lowcountry Trail is a boardwalk that winds through restored rice fields ......more... What's Happening (Daily Southtown)
Art ...more... Renaissance razzle-dazzle: 'Gates of Paradise' at the Met (The Oneida Daily Dispatch)
NEW YORK - It's only a modest exhibition for the number of pieces that make it up. Just seven, in fact....more... |