“A German billionaire with deep Tacoma roots is giving his Western American art collection to the Tacoma Art Museum, and the museum will build a new wing to house it, doubling its gallery space. Most of the new 15,000-square-foot wing and all of the 280-piece art collection come courtesy of Erivan Haub and his wife Helga.”
Tag: 07.08.12
A Q&A With Cheryl Strayed, Author Of The Wildly Successful Wild
“Strayed has a special talent for glimmering, golden turns of phrase that seem to hold all the promise and hope in the world — they’re Bible verses for a secular audience — but these are not the sort of cheesy mottos that you’ll find on, say, motivational posters on Pinterest. … Take for example: ‘The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of love.'”
Denver, Where DIY Means Build Your Own (Stunning) Guitar
“The instruments often are no-going-back kind of propositions: Make a good one, and you’ll never buy a guitar from the rack again. Denver tech worker Tracy Leveque, 46, has built several guitars, but he said the the last, which he built under Dick’s instruction, was especially fabulous. Still, he sometimes visits guitar shops, and goes straight to the lock-and-key rooms where guitars begin at $5,000, and gives them a whirl. ‘And nothing compares,’ he said. ‘I never found something I would buy.'”