Tom Wartman is standing over a rectangle of blue flame and bending glass in his hands. "This fire is about 1,500 degrees," he says casually. He quickly and deftly moves the glass arc from the flame to ...

“When you collect big things, people notice,” Vangie Osborn, creator of the upcoming Signs of Our Times gallery, said. In the very near future, one area of downtown Boise will start to look quite ...

SAN FRANCISCO - "It's like trying to hold a wet noodle straight," says Adam Taylor, a glass bender at Oakland's Neon Works. He's been bending neon into shape for seven years, but has only been good at ...

Enter the nondescript Neon Works warehouse in North Oakland, and you’ll find yourself suddenly immersed in rainbow light. It’s as if a time-warping tornado from the 1950s Bay Area wrapped all the neon ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As far as Todd Matuszewicz sees it, looking at the neon sign outside of the Riviera Motel on East Colfax Avenue is about as close to heaven as a person can ...