Daily Nutmeg

Puppets‘ Progress

Puppets‘ Progress

Muffy Pendergast expects about 300 heads at Westville’s Halloween parade this Sunday, and that’s not even counting the puppets. It’s the annual Giant Puppet and People-Making-Mayhem Parade, whose newest inanimate...

Puppets‘ Progress

Muffy Pendergast expects about 300 heads at Westville’s Halloween parade this Sunday, and that’s not even counting the puppets. It’s the annual Giant Puppet and People-Making-Mayhem Parade, whose newest inanimate...

Scare Tactics

Scare Tactics

Atonal organ music plays in repeating loops. The faint melody of a nursery rhyme floats somewhere far away. Louder are the ragged screams coming from an unsuspecting victim—or the bloodthirsty...

Scare Tactics

Atonal organ music plays in repeating loops. The faint melody of a nursery rhyme floats somewhere far away. Louder are the ragged screams coming from an unsuspecting victim—or the bloodthirsty...

Cut paper by Marcela Staudenmaier.

Public Access

A photo essay. Private art spaces weren’t so private during Private Studios Weekend, when nearly 40 artists at 17 locations left their doors unlocked and said, proverbially or not, “Come...

Public Access

A photo essay. Private art spaces weren’t so private during Private Studios Weekend, when nearly 40 artists at 17 locations left their doors unlocked and said, proverbially or not, “Come...

Creative Writing

Creative Writing

Tim Parrish still remembers being an MFA writing student at the University of Alabama, where one professor, upon reading his work, “turned red, slammed his fist on the table,” threw...

Creative Writing

Tim Parrish still remembers being an MFA writing student at the University of Alabama, where one professor, upon reading his work, “turned red, slammed his fist on the table,” threw...

Installation work by Jesse Peck

Work, and Play

A photo essay. The “Game On!” theme of this year’s City-Wide Open Studios has meant lots of games to play, especially last weekend at the expansive Goffe Street Armory. sponsored...

Work, and Play

A photo essay. The “Game On!” theme of this year’s City-Wide Open Studios has meant lots of games to play, especially last weekend at the expansive Goffe Street Armory. sponsored...

Makers‘ Mark

Makers‘ Mark

J.R. Logan has seen a lot of broken drones in his day. The makerspace Logan co-founded, MakeHaven, opened its doors in early 2012, and by 2015 a small band of...

Makers‘ Mark

J.R. Logan has seen a lot of broken drones in his day. The makerspace Logan co-founded, MakeHaven, opened its doors in early 2012, and by 2015 a small band of...