Arts

Welcome to the Van Sessions

Life on the road for a rapidly-rising, country-rock band from San Francisco includes the requisite dive bars, corn dogs, and music festivals. But for Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers, it also means that jam sessions are recorded at 70 miles an hour as they travel the open road, using nothing more than an iPhone rubber-banded to the rearview mirror of […]

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The Wildwood Chronicles: Portland, Enchanted

If there’s a city ripe to be a central character in a novel where animals speak, owls are princes, and 12-year-old girls save the world, it’s Portland.

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How Western artists do gardening

A Westerner who isn’t a gardener created a Western garden. That’s the short version behind these awe-inspiring “trees” made from rebar and filled with bougainvillea in the Central Garden at L.A.’s Getty Center.

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The California desert inspires art

Tell me this mini-movie from clothier Leisure Society doesn’t inspire a trip to Joshua Tree (and big-time eyeglasses lust). Plus, now I have a serious crush on the Shimmering Stars, the Vancouver (B.C.) band who provides the tunes. The ocean ain’t got nothing on this desert.

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