"At one point I couldn't imagine myself as a 50-year-old rapper, but now I think, why not?" says local hip-hop artist Agent 23. "Tom Waits is killing it and Tom Waits is essentially a storyteller with an old, grizzled personality." Of course, Waits isn't a rapper. But 23 points out that hip-hop and its possibilities […]

Vadim Bora created art even in his sleep. According to his wife, local writer Constance Richards, Bora slept with a sticky note and light-up pen beside his bed and would wake in the night to sketch an idea. When he went on vacation, he was constantly sketching. Says his son, artist Georgi Bora, the local […]