An Author's Calling
The last time I interviewed Michael Knight, he was a 20-something winner of the Playboy college fiction contest with both a short...
Wonderlust
Performing, at any age, can be a challenge, but as an adolescent, when one is perhaps at their most...
An Artist’s Pointe of View
At least for now, Lauren Woods is not a prolific painter. Last year, she completed three or four major oil-on-canvas pieces...
A Study in Selfies
LEFT Ted Burn appreciates the marketing side of a fine-arts career better than most. The foundation for his current success as a painter and...
Treasures from Puck
When Mary Van Antwerp’s red treasure box is opened, time does a backward somersault. It is no longer 2013 but 1937, ...
Spotlight: Bruce Larsen
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” Pablo Picasso may not have been...
The Stone Soup Connection
In the old folk tale, “Stone Soup, ” a soldier comes to town with nothing but a rock and a pot of...
Sounds of Italy
Giuseppe Verdi, a famed native Parmesan and one of the most influential 19th-century Romantic opera composers, once said, “You may...
Mobile in the Movies
With a commanding “Quiet on the movie set! Cameras rolling, ” all eyes are on Mobile’s Al Stokes. In real life, ...
Seen But Not Heard
The excitement is electric in downtown Mobile. Standing before a frenzied press, flashing cameras and waving microphones, Paul Maguire makes an...