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Youth Recycled Art Show now on display
Keep Columbus Beautiful’s Youth Recycled Art Show opens today and showcases art from youth in first through eighth grade.The show’s three categories are posters, recycled sculptures and canvas art. St

From skeletons to outer space: Inside Iris van Herpen’s world
A skeleton, a moth and a coral reef might not sound like the beginning of a fashion collection — but at the Brooklyn Museum, they are. Inside “Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses,” couture dresses twist, ripple and spill across the gallery, resembling everything from underwater…

José Luis Navajo presenta en Puerto Rico su nueva obra “Un salmo que te hará renacer”
El pastor José Luis Navajo tiene mensajes para compartir y en su más reciente trabajo literario titulado “Un salmo que te hará renacer”, tiene como propósito transportar al lector por una travesía de emociones acompañada de lecciones. “Lo que intenta es ser un viaje. He…

Getting bored on long drives? I’ve got just the book for you
This past August I did a lot of driving. To Boston and back. To Nantucket and back. Back and...

Send in the clowns
Eleven months of the year, Robert Quance lives a 9-to-5 life working behind the camera as a news assignment editor for WICS NewsChannel 20 in Springfield. Every October, though, Quance takes all his unused sick and personal time, dons grease paint, puts on a bulbous red nose and…

Down the gardened path
Imagine pedaling happily along a paved path where murals and stand-alone art works distract you from the shabbiness or outright ugliness of Springfield’s backsides, passing frolicking children and couples strolling hand in hand thinking how lucky they are to be living in a city…

October music arrives
Definitely in the class of defining weather months, October can lean any way the wind blows, but by the time it’s over we’re on our way to winter no matter what you want to think, wish, believe or deny. Let’s get going to see what’s in the forecast for our music meanderings.…

Last man drumming: Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Artimus Pyle
The Artimus Pyle Band pays tribute to Ronnie Van Zant Oct. 10 in Largo.

Voices Through Brushstrokes at the Liberty Mall (VIDEO)
LIBERTY – All are welcome tonight at Liberty Mall for the unveiling of Voices Through Brushstrokes at 5 p.m., presented in partnership with Grese Productions, Casa Di Longobardi, and Hope’s Compass. The project features eight massive 8-by-3-foot paintings permanently installed in…

The Creation Station in Buellton celebrates 25 years
Cozy slippers shuffling across tile flooring. Pillows cushioning the seats of chairs. A T-shirt reading: Sorry. Can’t. Quilting. Bye. It’s the sight that Linda Papenfus rolled up to at The Creation Station Fabric and Quilt Shop after a tiresome, traffic-riddled drive from Folsom.…

ATI’s latest LAB Series event set for Sunday, Oct. 4
Submitted Actors Theatre of Indiana (ATI) will present the next free LAB Series event at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4, at the Carmel Clay Public Library, 425 E Main St....

‘Salt City Responds’ to political climate through exhibit’s visual messaging
A new display titled “Salt City Responds” at the Warehouse Gallery features Syracuse artists’ responses to social and political issues.