Smoke ’em if you’ve got ’em, the saying goes. But what happens if you replace your standard 20 cigarettes with artwork small enough to fit inside the Marlboro, Camel or Lucky Strike box the nicotine ...

DENVER — Nicole Vanston, 22, was born with a learning disability. In today’s world, her financial prospects are not so good. Nicole was also born with a talent for art. And of all things to help her ...

MONTREAL--For the first time in maybe 20 years, I got a new cassette tape. It's a bitchin' mix of 1970s funk tunes and it sounds delicious on my car stereo, which fortunately is old enough to be able ...

Remember when buying a pack of smokes was as easy as $1, $2, $3 bills slipped into a vending machine? Perhaps unfledged youth or a sensible upkeep of lungs clouts that vintage memory. Purchasing a ...

Whittington crafted his first Art-O-Mat vending machine way back in 1997. It was installed along with 12 of his paintings at a cafe art show. The cafe owner loved the machine so much, she insisted it ...

PHILADELPHIA — Pull a knob on the vintage cigarette machine and you may pick up a new habit -- buying art. The Art-o-Mat offers miniature paintings, sculpture and other tiny trinkets for not much more ...

High quality, original art is available in McKinney thanks to cigarettes. Well, sort of. "The machines are vintage, retro cigarette machines," Karen Zupanic said. Zupanic is the executive director of ...

SEATTLE — One of the coolest vending machines you’ll ever see is inside a longtime Seattle shop. The Art-O-Mat is a vintage cigarette machine that dispenses small pieces of art. There are roughly 250 ...

Diane Macrae stepped up to the vintage cigarette machine in her Seattle art boutique recently, dropped a gold coin into a slot and waited to hear it clink against the inside of the steel machine.