Christmas cheer for 35 years

pans the silent era to present day with brief histories, accounts by costume greats like Edith Head and the people they dress. Learn what Johnny Depp thinks about the impact of his costumes on his work, along with Robert De Niro, a collector of the clothes he wears on set. t the Catholic University of America specializing in Irish American history, says that though the Irish had made great gains since the ’30s in Hollywood, anti-Irish and anti-Catholic sentiment were still pronounced when Kelly married in 1956. “There was still great tension in the ’50s, but it’s also a time when the Irish kind of win. She is part of this, as in ‘we have the most beautiful woman in the Hermes lindyworld,’ ”

 Meagher said. “She represented a very aristocratic Catholicism at a time when it was still a kind of ghetto church.” FOOD “The Photography of Modernist Cuisine,” by Nathan Myhrvold, The Cooking Lab, $120. Composed dishes levitated to reveal every delectable part. Food bisected in ovens and pots and beautifully scrutinized microscopically. The photo-scientists at The Cooking Lab offer lush, oversized spreads and all their secrets on how the work was done. Not a cookbook.efore Thanksgiving, it does give patrons the chance to catch the fair during its five-weekend run until the weekend before Christmas. Thus, there are more chances to go to the fair in costume or enjoy watching the participants and guests in costume. Dickens Fair has been bringing to

life the world of Charles Dickens and spreading Christmas cheer for 35 years now. The fair is a magical re-creation of mid-Victorian London, the era in which most of Dickens’s work is set. What brings the Christmas “Fruit: Edible, Inedible, Incredible,” by Wolfgang Stuppy and Rob Kesseler, Earth Aware Editions, $35. Similar microscopic cross-sections focused on fruit, seeds and Louis Vuitton ebene bagnature’s seed dispersers from the toucan to the fruit bat. Exhaustive scientific text. Stuppy is the seed morphologist for the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership, the international conservation project. Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal - Coffee talk Books for tables can make perfect gifts for the holidays