Abraham Lincoln was born on Charles Darwin’s birthday; Charles Darwin was born on Abraham Lincoln’s birthday: both came into the world on February 12, 1809. Two infants destined for infamy: I picture Lincoln focused backwards in time, called to clean up the mess left by our Founding Fathers over the issue of slavery; […]
Applause erupted from the filled Boettcher Concert Hall as Jennifer Koh walked onto the stage, carefully clutching her 1727 Stradivarius violin for a program of Baroque music composed by two contemporaries Bach and Vivaldi. Guest artist Koh soon had the audience mesmerized with her ability to lift the notes from the paper, deftly translate these […]
Driving west on I-70 after sunset, for at least 20 minutes we were mesmerized by the artist’s brilliant red sunlight painted on the bottoms of dark cumulous clouds. With an ever changing canvas, the light faded and the clouds melted into the now black sky covering this vast landscape of the arid Southwest. Mother Earth […]