In The Pursuit of Perfect Craft: An Artisan’s Lifework
Over decades of inspired workmanship, Hiroshima Kazuo has fashioned baskets that bespeak the everyday life of an isolated rural Japan
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Believe It or Not, Rip Was Almost as Odd as His Items
Incredible! Incomparable! Robert L. Ripley, who won fame and fortune by celebrating the outlandish, was himself a prime example
The modern museum trend toward interpretive exhibitions presents both challenges and opportunities
We were floundering in the War of 1812 when young Captain Perry delivered the winning motto, “Don’t Give Up The Ship”
Mrs. Malaprop’s Mangled Prose Set a President
Grande dame of an 18th-century comedy, she has been an aspiration to all who read boners, gaffes and mutilations perpetrated upon the English language
Giving New Life to Haida Art and the Culture It Expresses
Robert Davidson and Bill Reid rediscovered their past with the help of anthropologists, old books, tribal elders and a common ancestor
What’s Good For the Goose May Not be Good For You
Honk if you’ve had it up to here with geese on the golf course, in your yard, all over parks and beaches. You are not the only one
While Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 is history, space scientists are beginning to piece together the details of its pyrotechnic encounter with Jupiter last July
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Any Way You Slice it, a Poilane Loaf is Real French Bread
Forget the baguette. This legendary Parisian baker makes authentic sourdough boules the old-fashioned way—by hand, over wood fires
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