Divers and Sundry

The Dixon is a wonderful place any time of the year, but in the spring! Oh! In the spring! The tulips at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens ...

Thanks to Elizabeth , who found a 42 where I never would've thought to look! Here's her close-up: And now to honor the occas...

Madhumati is an award-winning 1958 Indian supernatural romance about star-crossed lovers who, through reincarnation, are reunited. I don...

Finn Family Moomintroll is the third book in Tove Jansson's Moomins series . These are actually children's books, but don't ...

Beyond The Black Rainbow is a 2010 science fiction horror film directed by Panos Cosmatos. There are psychic experiments going on in this r...

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a 1920 detective novel by Agatha Christie. Her first novel, this book introduces Hercule Poirot. You can...

Still Life with Teapot: by Amelia Peláez , who died on April 8, 1968, when she was 72 years old. A Cuban artist, she was a painter, a p...

Bartleby, the Scrivener is a short story by Herman Melville. You can read it online here or here . It begins, I am a rather elderly man...

The House of Small Cubes is a 2008 award-winning animated Japanese short film. Sweet memories of a long life well-lived. Rotten Tomato...

Monsieur Pamplemousse and the Tangled Web by Michael Bond is one in a series featuring Monsieur Pamplemousse, who retired as a detectiv...

Django Strikes Again  is a 1987 spaghetti western and the only direct sequel to Django . It picks up the  story after a 20 year time span. F...

The Only Death in the City is a 1981 fantasy short story by C.J. Cherryh . You can read it online here . It begins, It was named the City...

Sarah Vaughan -"The Divine One"- died on this date in 1990 of lung cancer at the age of 66. If You Could See Me Now (1946): ...

Artists in Kungälv (1937): by Bo Beskow , a Swedish artist and author who died on April 1 in 1989. I'm sharing this painting and i...