Art & Life Desk

Cure and care for your winter clothes

Cure and care for your winter clothes

For most of us, the care-labels inside our wearables generally come as nothing more than a source of itch and discomfort. The tiny fonts threaded with ambiguous icons never really ...

 Jan. 08
Top trends of fall

Top trends of fall

The '90s are back. So are the '80s. And the '70s. There are also a couple fashion trends that can't be traced back to any particular decade, but are covetable nonetheless. Nordstrom's creative director Ruth Basloe weighs in on her favorite styles, with tips on...

 Aug. 29

Requiem For A Dream

Requiem For A Dream Alcoholics or drug addicts feel wrong when they don't feel right. Eventually they feel very wrong, and must feel right, and at that point their lives spiral down into some sort...

Aug. 29

Persepolis

Persepolis Peter BradshawHere is an adaptation so inspired, so simple and so frictionless in its transformation of the source material that it's almost a miracle. When I tell people it...

Aug. 08