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Ring Tones

Ring Tones

Like something out of The Lord of the Rings, “Harkness Tower” sounds foreboding enough to match the look of its bearer, the craggy Gothic grimace rising 216 feet above High...

Ring Tones

Like something out of The Lord of the Rings, “Harkness Tower” sounds foreboding enough to match the look of its bearer, the craggy Gothic grimace rising 216 feet above High...

Books and Crannies

Books and Crannies

A photo essay. (To view all the photos, check out the email version of this story.) Unlike the pastoral, fleetingly autumnal lands that surround it, Whitlock’s Book Barn, established in...

Books and Crannies

A photo essay. (To view all the photos, check out the email version of this story.) Unlike the pastoral, fleetingly autumnal lands that surround it, Whitlock’s Book Barn, established in...

Homeland Security

Homeland Security

A photo essay. (To view all photos, check out the email version of this story.) When we featured him last November, local sculptor Mohamad Hafez was steeped in profound turmoil,...

Homeland Security

A photo essay. (To view all photos, check out the email version of this story.) When we featured him last November, local sculptor Mohamad Hafez was steeped in profound turmoil,...

Lost in Space

Lost in Space

A photo essay. In a fitting end to an extended term, this year’s City-Wide Open Studios held its fourth and final weekend—there are usually three—in an extended space: Erector Square....

Lost in Space

A photo essay. In a fitting end to an extended term, this year’s City-Wide Open Studios held its fourth and final weekend—there are usually three—in an extended space: Erector Square....

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...