Knit to This: Jessie Ware Double Whammy!
As you’ll see if you comment otherwise, I love disco and will defend it until the late Donna Summer politely asks me to shut up about it. So I ain’t...
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As you’ll see if you comment otherwise, I love disco and will defend it until the late Donna Summer politely asks me to shut up about it. So I ain’t...
Kate Winslet. I’ve got a Kate Winslet film fest going right now. She’s just so good to watch—a closeup of Kate Winslet is a masterclass in how to make a...
Dear Ann, As you know, I subsist on a steady TV diet of police procedurals. I watch so many of them, and re-watch my favorites until I can recite big...
I go back and forth about whether I prefer bingeing a new show all at once or downing each episode one-per-week, as Gen-Z TikTok influencers like, oh, Milton Berle and...
Everything But the Girl It’s been almost a quarter of a century since the last Everything But the Girl album, and not a day of that twenty-five years went by...
Has it really been three years since the launch of Field Guide No. 14: Refresh starring four glorious designs by Carol Feller? On Monday from MDK World HQ in Nashville,...
Oh, thank heavens for the internet and all the treasure troves it continues to reveal! FOR EXAMPLE. A little late to the party, but toward the end of 2022, I...
“We all know in our bones that things are harder than they have to be.” That’s just one insight in Krista Tippett’s rich and expansive live conversation with author and...
Is Terence Davies the Patron Saint of MDK? Maybe! After Ann yammered about A Quiet Passion and then I went on a bit about The Long Day Closes, here we...
I’m calling it the Peggy Orenstein effect: my renewed and deepened interest in the husbandry of sheep, our ancient wool-bearing friends. Shortly before our Zoom conversation with the author of...
Grab some knitting and click on the video above for our visit this week with the brilliant, funny Peggy Orenstein. Kay and I really enjoyed our conversation that explores Peggy’s...
I’ve written about our dear pal Gael Towey before. Gael was the founding Creative Director of Martha Stewart Living, a magazine that revolutionized the way all kinds of making—from cooking...