Our artistic opening for the week is a semi-abstract digital impasto inspired by a recent trip to a cool Tiki Bar, just outside of Chicago (you can see photos and video HERE). This is an attempt to be dark and colorful at the same time while evoking the feel of Tiki culture in an impressionistic way.

If you want, you can click on the image to see a larger version.

Meanwhile, over on The AIR, Marathon Monday launches headlong into Christmas mode, with 23 solid hours of holiday programming, mostly made exclusively for The AIR. You will hear special Christmas episodes of Radio Free Charleston, Curtain Call, Prognosis, Sydney’s Big Electric Cat and The Swing Shift, along with some classic radio drama and The AIR XMAS Mess programs.  You can tune in on The AIR website, or on this rather ingenious embedded transistor radio thingy…