Festivals and Culture
Man Shops Globe, Bazaars, Flea Markets on Sundance
In out-of-the-way antique shops, private dealerships and craft stalls, Keith Johnson, an at-large buyer for the Anthropologie chain of popular clothing and home decorating stores, looks for one-of-a-kind home furnishings and accessories. He travels six months of the year, to ends-of-the-earth excursions, from flea markets in Paris to remote villages in India and obscure art studios in Turkey more »
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Between innings there was a mini-car race, a BBQ apron give-away, tee shirts catapulted into the crowd and tossed from a truck that circled the field, a chicken dance dance-off, kids running the bases, and more kids racing the Spinners’ three mascots, the Canaligators. Meanwhile, in between all these shenanigans, an actual ball game was played. Or so they tell me. I was having too much fun to notice. more »
A Cable Calamity
But until then, all would be rosy. Or so I thought — until Company Y’s installer showed up, dragging yards of dusty cable across my carpet and tripping over his baggy jeans which were hanging at half mast mid-paunch and puddling at his feet. Oh, well, I thought, he’s not a fashion model; he’s a cable installer. more »
An Excerpt From Digging Up The Dead; A History of Notable American Reburials
Relocation and reburial (or 'translation' of a body, to use the traditional, Latin-derived word) are invariably all about the resurgence of the reputation of and hence respect for someone whose lamp and visage had dimmed in some way. more »