Vintages & Visions
By MARCIA VANDERLIP of the Tribune's staff
When winemaker Cory Bomgaars first laid eyes on artist Joel Sager’s “Kitchen Chair” painting, his thoughts turned to a “2005 Syrah.” 

NICHE: A WEEKLY PEEK AT AN EMERGING ARTIST
Molly Horak
By MARCIA VANDERLIP of the Tribune’s staff
Molly Horak is serious about art.

BEHIND THE SCENES
New fundraiser brings art, animals together
By LYNN ISRAEL of the Tribune’s staff
Talk about art going to the dogs, Columbia’s art and animal patrons will have a chance to enjoy both at L’Art et Les Animaux, a fundraiser slated for 6 p.m. Jan. 27 at Stoney Creek Inn, 2601 S. Providence Road. 

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PERFORMING ARTS

Perpetual phantom
By MICHAEL KUCHWARA of The Associated Press
NEW YORK - No job in the theater lasts forever. At "The Phantom of the Opera," it only seems that way.

ON STAGE

MUSIC

WWJJD?
By ERNEST JASMIN Tacoma News Tribune
Rock legend and prototypal rock vixen Joan Jett and her longtime backing band, the Blackhearts, are touring sporadically in early 2006, including a show Jan. 26 at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe.

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LIVE MUSIC

BOOKS

Happy yet? Authors pursue the state of bliss we all expect
By MARTA SALIJ of the Detroit Free Press
Maybe you have a New Year’s resolution that’s still unbroken.

COVER TO COVER
“Hunger: An Unnatural History” by Sharman Apt Russell (Basic Books, 262 pages)
By RANDOLPH SCHMID of The Associated Press
The haunting images of starving children regularly appear on television, sometimes on the news, sometimes in heart-moving appeals for charity. Usually, the hunger is in some faraway land.

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VISUAL ARTS

DOWNEY'S FINE LINE
Artist paints story of success with gourds
By JAMES DOWNEY
Melynda Lotven sometimes struggles to be taken seriously as an artist. This is the case for most artists as they’re trying to get themselves "established," but she has an additional hurdle: her medium. She paints and sculpts with gourds.

Skewering the status quo
By JUSTIN M. NORTON of The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO - Winston Smith stands outside the DNA Lounge with a herd of tattooed and pierced punkers. With his trimmed gray beard, thick black leather jacket and brown fedora angled rakishly, he looks more like a chaperone than a metal head waiting to get into a music club.

From New York City’s dark days comes a ray of former creativity
By DEEPTI HAJELA of the Associated Press
NEW YORK - It was one of the darkest periods in New York’s history - and also one of its most creative.

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