Posts made by author 'David Bain'

It started decades ago with the slow-food movement. That morphed into the Farm to Plate movement and admonitions to "eat locally." With that sensibility raised, the movement inched inexorably forward to include those things we drink, leading to an explosion in local craft breweries.

"The growth in local brewers is directly related to farm-to-table, back-to-local movement," said Bill Heaton, co-founder of Big Elm Brewing in Sheffield MA. "People are really concerned with where their food and drink come from. And peopl...

Designer and antiques dealer Michael Trapp traces his current career to his early family experience.

"My parents couldn't let me take art in high school," he said. "It was a pent-up frustration that exploded in all directions."

Those directions include interior, landscape and architectural design, dealing in antiques and an architectural salvage business. "It's all basically the same kind of thing," he said, "except that I do both inside and outside design, which most people don't do."

His direction in life started early. His military family moved frequently before eventually settling in Ohio where he studied landscape architecture and design...

Joy Brown is a presence that looms large on Broadway these days. No, she is not in an SRO play. Rather, nine of the sculptor's larger-than-life bronze figures, all exuding a Buddha-like serenity, are installed along the thoroughfare.

The exhibition, which has been extended through mid-February, is presented by Morrison Galleries of Kent and the Broadway Mall Association in cooperation with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

The rotund figures are installed from 72nd to 168th Street, greeting pedestrians crossing the street and subway riders emerging from below ground. "It's a...