2023’s Window Walk event in the CWE will end shortly after the New Year. There is still time to stroll about the neighborhood and view the inventive window displays in person. If that’s not possible, I hope the following photos will give you an idea of all the effort and creativity that local designers put…
Tag: World Chess Hall of Fame
Snapshots from a recent trip to Oakland
In mid-September I flew out to Oakland to visit family. It had been 2 1/2 years since I had traveled anywhere, so I was a little apprehensive about getting on a plane once again but, as is usually the case, once I got there those concerns melted away. I was visiting Oakland’s Uptown District, which…
Michael Drummond’s “Being Played” at World Chess Hall of Fame
Last evening at the opening of Being Played at World Chess Hall of Fame, designer Michael Drummond, below, commented that his year-long effort to create a narrative about the effects of the fast fashion industry on the environment “almost killed him.” In this exhibition Drummond, a veteran of Project Runway Season 8, has connected the…