May 2020

Throughout 2019, The Bascom’s staff and leadership spent hours in meetings and discussions as they worked with The DeVos Institute of Arts Management to create a new strategic plan, services […]

I’ve been writing restaurant reviews for Laurel for six years.  That’s given me and Tricia and a select group of friends entree into an astonishing collection of restaurants, ranging from […]

What do we do in times like this?  Covid-19/Coronavirus – what is this virus that is causing a pandemic? Why are we so ill-prepared for something that is affecting all […]

Furniture designer Paula Jones strolls through the grocery store with a smile so magnetic that it seems to set the whole place aglow.   On her wrist she brandishes a […]

Anxiety is wrestling with Un-Creative Tension in the mind.   Relax friends, we have not been here before.  When the world we thought we could count on suddenly requires a […]

Many people recognize Memorial Day as a time to reflect on lost loved ones, a weekend of spring barbecues and picnics, and/or a long weekend away from work, school, and […]

EVENT CANCELLED. Five years ago, Southern Foodways Director John T Edge said that “Southerners recognize Barbecue to be our premier folk food”, their joints, places “where seekers find solace as […]

Ralph Waldo Emerson advised that we should, “Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.”  Over the past few weeks most of us have had no choice but to […]