Being Chinese — What We Believe Valerie Lee

It’s no secret that the Chinese are superstitious and  look at things differently.  The Cantonese and their play on words is truly inexhaustible and likely unappreciated by non-Chinese speakers. They find it totally ridiculous.    Take numbers for instance.  Number 4 is unlucky and you might wonder why.  In Cantonese, the word four translates into say, [...]

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1. Being Chinese – Dim Sum
2. China, You’re Fired!
3. Are There Any Live Humans Out There?
4. I Take Mine Black and White

Associations Alan Place

Writing associations… I don’t mean groups, but how we hear a story or a name and link them. I was watching on TV “Turn of the screw,” and the first thing that came to mind was Henry James, the author. This got me thinking how many times we do it. There are obvious cases where [...]

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1. Changing face of Motor-X
2. The Scariest Movies Ever
3. Me, Dick Clark and Fame
4. My Acorn and Me

Me, Dick Clark and Fame Melanie Bacon

Back in the early 80’s, in my farmwife days, I was a newspaper columnist in Morris, Minnesota, author of “Melly’s Memorabilia” for the “Morris Tribune”, receiving $25 per weekly column published. Morris, population 5,000, three hours west of the Twin Cities, was the largest town within an hour’s drive. The “Morris Tribune” was the type [...]

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1. William John Owen Rowbotham MBE
2. CBC to film Swami Swindler MOW
3. Changing face of Motor-X
4. Movies – T.V. – Music – Video Games – Books & Violence

Showman or Singer Alan Place

An often asked question, over the years in Country Music People. Why don’t we in the UK get the major US stars on tour any more? The answer is two-fold, both equally important. First, the cost of the tour over here would far out weigh the CDs sold, so no matter what you gained in [...]

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I Take Mine Black and White Andrew J. Sacks

The traditional coffeehouse is never to be confused with the recent proliferation of corporate-owned and operated cookie-cutter chain coffee shop/cafes brought to us by Starbucks and others. If you think a Starbucks is a “coffeehouse,” try dressing down, taking your guitar and smokes with you into one, sit down and light up and start to [...]

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1. Take It – It’s Mine
2. On Turning 50: No More White Underwear!
3. The Adventure of Black Peter
4. Celebrity Sightings In The SoCal Chess World

The Cheerful Saratoga Gardener Barbara Garro

I am a simple gardener–I spade, sow, seed, water, then I plant and wait. Loving variety, I am also an eclectic gardener, never like Secret Garden’s Frances Hodgson Bennett’s garden where three hundred coral-pink roses bloomed. Three hundred roses on my fifty by seventy-five foot plot would require me to move my house, although I [...]

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1. Art Detectives
2. I Got Caught Cheating!
3. Saving Ontario Place
4. What Makes Certain Art Famous?

Attack of the Giant Cult Films Andrew J. Sacks

The definition of a cult film is as slippery as any eel. Around its boundaries are pure camp movies, hopelessly dated films, movies so bad they’re good, and the like. Authorities seem never to agree on one unambiguous definition for a cult classic. There will, apparently, always be fuzzy edges and movies argued for and [...]

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1. Writers Attack Axing Of Book Giveaway As ‘Gross Cultural Vandalism’
2. It Was a Very Good Year
3. Saving Ontario Place
4. Art Detectives

What Makes Certain Art Famous? Barbara Garro

Artist Paul Cezanne spoke to the question when he said: “A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. Emotion is the starting point, the beginning and the end. Craftsmanship and technique are in the middle.” You may remember reading that the first time I saw a photograph of Jean Moulin, [...]

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1. Artists Painting in Public
2. Art Buyer Worries
3. Beauty Keeps You Young!
4. Art: Real or Not?

Selling Men Art Barbara Garro

Is there a typical male art buyer? No more and no less than there is a typical male clothing buyer or car buyer. That still means they buy like men and not like women. Do more men buy animal scenes and sports-related art? Certainly. Still, most men truisms never equate to every man realities. So, [...]

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1. Art Buyer Worries
2. The Rembrandt Mystique
3. Beauty Keeps You Young!
4. What Art Is

Art Buyer Worries Barbara Garro

As a buyer, I know that buying art is the most exciting event. As a buyer, I know that I enjoy every piece of part I have purchased every single day of my life as I give it admiring glances as I pass by. Every once in a while for no particular reason, a painting [...]

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1. Artists Painting in Public
2. Selling Men Art
3. What Art Is
4. The Rembrandt Mystique

Tolkien: My Annual Ritual Jack Eason

Every year without fail, I take the time to lose myself totally in the words of J.R.R Tolkien. First I re-read The Hobbit as if it was that very first time I picked up my copy of it, fifty plus years ago now. And then after a few days, once I have completed it, I [...]

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1. Literary Critics
2. Where’s That Darned Book?
3. Lather, Rinse, Repeat: The Process of Writing
4. A Story Worth Sharing?

Changing face of Motor-X Alan Place

When my interest in Motor-X or Scrambling as we Brits call it started. The big names on television races were the likes of Jeff Smith, Dave Bickers, Chris Horsefield, Arthur Browning, the Rickman brothers and the Lampkin family. Bikes were predominantly UK with BSA, Greeves and AJS at the head of the races. At this [...]

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1. Associations
2. NYC Blessing of Bikes
3. What Makes Certain Art Famous?
4. A Life Changing Moment