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Red Star Cafe
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The Red Star Cafe blog is devoted to our fascination with art, literature, animal welfare and leftist bohemian tree hugger conspiracies.
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Recent Posts
A Muzzle Fit for a Princess
Dwyn Tomlinson is one of the jewellery artists over at BeadFX that posts her usually over-the-top inspirations on their website. This week, she’s put together a lovely rhinestone-decorated dog muzzle! The muzzle is for Miss Chrysanthemum, a kis...
Matter Lent: The Photographs of Sally Mann
From Erika Ritter’s The Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath: Early in the twenty-first century, American photographer Sally Mann disinterred the year-old remains of her beloved pet greyhound, Eva, salvaged what fragments she could, and took ...
Pilgrimage to St. Guinefort’s Wood
Earlier, we wrote about St. Guinefort, the dog saint, the inspiration for the Welsh story of the hound, Gelert. Both dogs, having killed a serpent threatening the infant son of the lord of the castle, had been killed in anger just before said lord di...
St. Guinefort, the Dog Saint
From De Supersticione, by inquisitor Stephen de Bourbon: The sixth thing to say is about insulting superstitions, some of which are insulting to God, others to man. The superstitions which attribute divine honors to demons or any other creature insu...
Hector Guimard and the Place Victoria Metro
The Polaroid has, for many, allowed an image to be viewed a minute after it was captured. Polaroids are the basis of the work of photographer, Alex Park, whose altered Polaroid of the Paris metro is the subject here. His technique aims to rearrange ...
Puppy Mill Hell
When an animal rescuer attended a dog auction in Missouri, she found the dogs selling for almost nothing. The Missouri Department of Agriculture had ordered the sale because conditions in the puppy mill had deteriorated from whatever their miserab...
