Originally published September 2022 It all started with Aubrey Beardsley, (1872 – 1898, England) in early studies when I thought I wanted to be an artist. Pen and ink drawings were my oeuvre, so to speak. So, I endeavored to copy him—below was my favorite accomplishment. The Narnia illustrations by Pauline Baynes seemed to reek …
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Yes I did. Early December of last year. (Happy New Year!). Weather, 60’s—felt warmer in the sun who slid away from us early in the afternoon behind the San Jacinto mountains, leaving us shivering in the pool. Thus we spent the majority of wet time in the spa, with a plastic pitcher of white …
Just the other day I noticed a news squib saying that “Phantom of the Opera”, the musical, is finally shuffling off into the shadows of theatre history after thirty five years on the job, as it were. Thirty five years on the stage with many Phantoms, many Christines over the years. I don’t know why …
Originally Published October 2017 by Jill Zeller, after viewing a Maurits Cornelis Escher collection. Leaving Escher in Het Paleis, Hannah and I asked for directions to the Mauritshuis, The Royal Cabinet of Paintings, home of Dutch paintings. It was always “Well, you walk across there and take the first right.” Or, “You walk across there …
Kickstarter campaign for LABYRINTH, newest album of original music from Bookview Café author Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff and her husband, Chef Jeff Vader, All-Powerful God of Biscuits, will wrap up on October 15 and is roughly 72 percent funded! They have 14 days to make that last push and achieve their goal. Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff is the …
Today is the day that the Kickstarter campaign for LABYRINTH goes live! LABYRINTH is an album of cinematic rock songs, composed, produced and performed by Jeff Bohnhoff and Book View Cafe author Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff (The Mer Cycle trilogy, Gina Miyoko Mysteries, and LALDASA). What does “cinematic rock” mean? Well, if you visit the campaign …
(Originally published April 2017) Another trip to South Africa brought me back through Amsterdam. I discovered some common sense somewhere and decided to have a one night layover, and bunked at the Schiphol Hilton, a remarkable Ikea folly of diamond-shaped windows, lights that functioned from the room keycard inserted in a slot by the door, …
