London/Nashville: Like countless others across the globe, Joss Stone is preparing for a more pared-down holiday season this year. That's in part, of course, because of Covid but also because…
Read MoreLONDON--Katie Posner and Charlotte Bennett, the joint artistic directors of British touring theater company Paines Plough, have been mentors to each other for over a decade. So when the job of artistic…
Read MoreLONDON-All my life I have constantly battled between being an optimist and a realist, teetering on the verge of being a glass-half-empty or glass-half-full kinda gal. And in these upsetting…
Read MoreLONDON--When I was a little girl, I loved reading the tales of rural life in Kenya by Elspeth Huxley and Isak Dineson. I also adored "At One with the Sea:…
Read MoreWARSAW--Making good food is a challenge. Styling food to make it look appealing is an even greater challenge. And capturing the beauty of food with a camera? Art. After mastering…
Read MoreReykjavik, Iceland and London via email--I am obsessed with BBC World Service radio. It's on in my car all the time and I have it also often in the background…
Read MoreLONDON--My journey to Carnegie Hall began in January of 2015 when I first met Joyce DiDonato in London. She was artist-in-residence at London's Barbican Centre and agreed to give a Masterclass…
Read MoreBELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND--It’s 2016, launch night of the first ever Women’s Work Festival in Belfast. I’m sitting in a taxi with Annie Nightingale, the pioneering female DJ of BBC Radio…
Read MoreMANCHESTER, ENGLAND - Nestled within the record stores and alternative cocktail bars of Manchester's Northern Quarter sits an impressive piece in the world of the Chinese contemporary art scene. The…
Read MoreNEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT—Alyssa DeLaBruere, a teaching artist and activist based out of Vermont, is acutely aware of the grave dangers the United States' national parks and monuments face under the…
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