Hays Blinckmann's first painting studio in Key West went up in flames, the work of an arsonist. She relocated across the street, only to be flooded by Hurricane Wilma in 2005.

There is far more to this country than paella and flamenco, so broaden your Hispanic horizons, urges Annie Bennett.

Leonie Cooper on how rock is reopening the generation gap.

KALISPELL - At first, it looks like finger-painting - raw, swift swirls of yellow and green.

THEY met in Paris in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. He was a struggling painter with a tiny apartment in Greenwich Village; she was a ballerina who lived in Marin County and danced in San Francisco.

Man charged with killing 26 women, mainly prostitutes, but true toll could be 65.

With each stroke of the brush on an empty canvas, Allen artist Ken Byler begins to conjure up memories of his family and friends from days on the Black Prairie. The stories focus on the rich and colorful lives of residents during the close of the frontier and agriculture eras in Allen.