Arts & Life

Gulliver's Gate: The Miniature World In The Middle Of New York City

4:36pm July 10, 2017

by Jon Kalish

Gulliver's Gate is a miniature world in four rooms in the middle of Times Square. It covers nearly 50,000 square feet, and it's got moving cars and boats; the Tower of London and the Panama Canal.

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Proponents of the emerging pot-for-pleasure industry want to grab a share of the nearly $2 billion tourism business in Sonoma County with events like dinners that incorporate marijuana.

Pairing Wine And Weed: Is It A California Dream Or Nightmare?

4:36pm July 10, 2017

by John Burnett

Cannabis entrepreneurs hope to capitalize on the state's wine tourism industry by melding marijuana with meals and snagging some fertile land. But many winemakers are taking a wait-and-see approach.

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Octavia Butler at home. A lifelong bibliophile, she considered libraries sacred spaces.

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Octavia Butler: Writing Herself Into The Story

3:14pm July 10, 2017

by Karen Grigsby Bates

An exhibit at the Huntington Library shows visitors how famed science fiction writer Octavia Butler created a career for herself in a genre that had few women and even fewer African-Americans.

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Behold the Manga: Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy.

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Nothing Was Ever The Same: 10 Comics That Changed The Game

12:36pm July 10, 2017

by Glen Weldon

We're previewing this year's summer reader poll on comics and graphic novels by highlighting comics that stand as historic milestones.

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Bestselling Author Alexandra Fuller Talks New Novel: 'Quiet Until The Thaw'

5:32pm July 09, 2017

Alexandra Fuller's new novel, Quiet Until the Thaw, follows the lives of two Oglala Sioux cousins who grow up to take very different paths.

Rebecca Stott teaches English literature at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England.

'I Was Full Of Rage': Author Rebecca Stott On Growing Up In A Christian Cult

10:20am July 09, 2017

by A Martinez

Stott's memoir, In the Days of Rain, is about her childhood in and out of the Exclusive Brethren, a conservative, separatist cult.

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Comics combine two crafts that I am passionate about — writing and art. It is a rich medium that brings me joy as a reader and creator.

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Cartoonists Tell Us: What Do Comics Mean To You?

10:03am July 09, 2017

by Petra Mayer

In honor of our big summer reader poll of favorite comics and graphic novels, we've asked a few very cool cartoonists to tell us — or really, draw for us — what comics mean to them.

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Sunday Puzzle: Switch It Up

8:14am July 09, 2017

by Will Shortz

A tricky word challenge awaits your answers this week.

Tropic of Kansas: A Novel, by Christopher Brown.

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'Tropic Of Kansas' Rips Dystopia From The Headlines

7:00am July 09, 2017

by Jason Sheehan

Christopher Brown's new book plays out in a world where all our fears have become manifest — the nightly news, turned up to 11. And while there's a hint of hope at the end, this is not a happy book.

Amelia Earhart eats dinner at a Cleveland hotel. Her in-flight menu, however, was usually simple, often consisting of tomato juice and a hard-boiled egg.

Amelia Earhart's Travel Menu Relied On Three Rules And People's Generosity

3:18pm July 08, 2017

by Nina Martyris

The question American women often asked Earhart was what she ate during her long flights. She said she used three rules for her in-flight menu. Once on the ground, she relied on people's generosity.