Artist vacuum-seals couples for portrait series

This "Flesh Love" portrait of Junko and Char, on display at the Wall Space Gallery, sells for $2,500. (Click to enlarge.) (Credit: Photographer Hal) If you tend to feel smothered in your romantic relationships, these photos of vacuum-sealed couples might leave you gasping for air. Yes, you read that right. Vacuum-sealed couples. Because what says love like being shrink-wrapped to your ...

Film Clips: Big Chronicle of Rampling in Black

OPENING TODAY BIG MIRACLE (PG) When a family of gray whales become trapped under ice shelf in the Arctic Circle, a small town in Alaska rallies behind a young boy's attempts to save them. A feel-good film starring The Office's Josh Krasinski and Drew Barrymore.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

Women of Saudi Arabia announce: My Name Is…

(MENAFN - Arab News) 2011 was a year when women's issues in Saudi Arabia took a good shaking. In June, the world witnessed the long awaited and exceptional move by women to take to the steering ...

The burning man: Local artist truly carries a torch

When you paint with fire, you don't sign your work with a pen or a brush. Hell, no. You heat a branding iron until it glows, press it hard into wood and admire the sizzle and smoke. Walker Babington just got the branding iron, which bears his initials. Before that, he didn't feel comfortable signing his art work at all. That may sound strange, but Babington basks in the unconventional. Consider ...

Entertainment Calendar – Issue of Jan. 19, 2012

Hope United Methodist Church of Rancho Bernardo presents “The Zephyr Stringz,” a string quartet, performing classical music with selections from Haydn , Shostakovich , and Schubert , 2 p.m. (changed from 4 p.m.) Sunday, Jan. 22 at 16550 Bernardo Heights Parkway (at the corner of Bernardo Center Drive) in Rancho Bernardo.