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The California Artists Illuminating Kelp
ON THE FIRST DAY I lived in Northern California, I stood on the beach and stared at a golden-green object washed up on the sand — a shining coil with a perfect bulb at one end. It was, I learned, a strand of kelp, and I remember thinking it would mak
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A Foodie Award For HCN
Mention the James Beard Foundation, and folks think of chic restaurants, white chef’s hats and hand-plated hors d'oeuvres. My favorite James Beard Award-winner is much more down-home. Los Hernandez is a humble eatery housed in a whitewashed, cinder-b
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Dislocating Western aesthetics
“WESTERN ART,” as in visual art about the Western United States, often conjures romanticized and myopic depictions of an imagined past: Charles Marion Russell’s illustrative fantasies about cowboys and Indians; sublime renderings of the Rocky Mountai

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