The colorful past of San Antonio started with Native Americans, then the Spanish discovered the fresh water and settled in, later the Germans made San Antonio their home, and finally, the US Military (joint Army & Air Force base) introduced this beautiful city to the rest of America. Today “The Alamo”, is the number one […]
Category Archives: JACK ATKINSON – EDITOR’S HELLO!
A personal invitation to read on. What this issue is all about!
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Jul
Jul
A Photo Essay on New Orleans Bonus – Posted July 28, 2019 – after publication. https://wp.me/p9mfBG-6K9 CURRENTLY: All is back to normal in The Big Easy. IT IS TIME to book a trip to NOLA and make up for the two weeks tourists stayed away! July 22, 2019 -The signals from Barry pointed […]
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May
May
How you are? Com’on in now… laissez le bon temps rouler! (A Cajun welcome. How are you, come in – let the good time roll.) This issue of ARTS&FOOD® Magazine is all about New Orleans, Louisiana, one of the most interesting and unique places in the United States of America. The Crescent City (so […]
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Mar
Mar
Time for a Miami Beach & Miami Culture Vacation SPECIAL ISSUE! Recently I was able to spend some quality time in Miami’s beautiful South “Beach” and North “Beach” areas! Winter and Early Spring vacations usually take us to one extreme climate or the other. We either choose the frosty snow packed environs […]
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Jan
Jan
(COVER) It’s January, it’s cold, but it’s also time to make plans for new adventures and to make adjustments for improving our lives. Photo by Oleksandr Pidvalnyi from Pexels 2019 – With the promise of a new year, we have another chance to solve life’s problems! HELLO! I love new beginnings. It is one reason […]
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Oct
Oct
Editor’s Hello: Yuletide in NYC means Parties, Parades, High Culture, Beautiful Lights, and Great Shopping! EDITOR’S NOTE: Special NYC Issue: As an artist, editor, publisher, and career-long member of the 4th estate, I have logged many years in NYC, for work and by having an apartment there for 10 years. For me, New York City is the center […]
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Sep
Sep
EDITOR’S NOTE / Special California Issue: Our magazine has spent the last three months traveling around the great state of California from North to South. Thus, the majority of this issue is fully immersed in the art, food, culture, and history of California. You will ride along on a first-person road trip from Houston to […]
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Jul
Jul
The ancient Romans called the hottest, most humid days of summer the “DOG DAYS.” Their name came from astronomy. They associated the hottest days of the year with a constellation prominent in the summer sky known as “Canis Major,” and the brightest star in that constellation known as the “Dog-Star” or “Sirius.” You and I now enter these […]
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Apr
As I write this column, the mountain ski areas around the US are all closing with the highest recent snow totals of the entire season coming at the end – several feet of snow fell on the last day at many ski resorts. Now we switch to get-ready mode for swimming, tennis, golf, and […]
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Mar
Mar
Hello! March and April are “crocus season”, nature’s announcement that Spring is indeed coming. This winter in the US has been one of the most peculiar on record, from bone-chilling cold, snow and ice plunging deep into the southern states, to wicked nor’easters in the northern Atlantic states, to dramatic fluctuations in temperates, everywhere, from […]