Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Joan of Arc was born on January 6, 1412 in Domrémy-la-Pucelle, ...
On This Day: January 3: J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Tolkien is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works ...
Thanksgiving 2019
This week, all across the United States, families are beginning to gather for their annual Thanksgiving get together, friends are gathering for ...
Happy Holidays!
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Out Of The Archives:
Shakespeare & Company
There comes a time during any English speaker's sojourn to Paris when a pang of homesickness might hit. It might not be a pang for the actual home, ...
New Project On artist-at-large
I'm out of work. I'm bored. Not the entitled kind of bored, but rather that kind of bored that comes from sending resumes out into that big black ...
Today’s Birthday Boy: René Magritte
Le Fils de L'Homme (Son of Man) René François Ghislain Magritte: November 21 1898 – August 15 1967 René Magritte was born in Lessines, in the ...
Photo Of The Day: Berkeley Utility Box
A couple of years ago, the gray utility boxes in downtown Berkeley were vibrantly painted in a project called The 60 Boxes Project in a collaboration ...
Trick Or Treat
The image above was taken during one of my Berkeley neighborhood's Halloween celebrations. Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday, defeated by ...
Today in Arts History: A Poem By William Wordsworth
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 by William Wordsworth, 1770 - 1850 Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be ...