Tomorrow, the Slammer opens this year’s signature show, Roaring: Art, Fashion, and the Automobile in France, 1918–1939. Anne and I managed to catch it a day early. Studying creativity in France, during the interwar year can be an exercise in dread. Sandwiched between the two worst wars, this time and place seems doomed to horrible failure. The items contained here testify otherwise. This show’s fashion and art are interesting, but it is the cars that really made it for me. I am not that much of a car guy, but if all cars were like the ones shown here, I certainly could become one. As the resident fiber artist Anne really dug the duds a lot more than I did. It is always a special treat to see one of my mom’s furniture pieces on display in the art museum. The pictured original Corbusier Chaise Longue looks a little worse for wear than the one in Monterey. When we get back from there, we will have to revisit this show. It is that good.