Newspapers of the day ran proclamations from the king of the carnival decreeing that balconies should be draped in purple, ...

Complementary colors live on opposite sides of the color wheel. Imagine red and green, blue and orange, or yellow and purple. Or move a half step over on the wheel, and combine a yellow-green color ...

Kaela Green as Celie and Terri Manning as Shug star in “The Color Purple,” running through Jan. 26 at the Baldwin Theatre in Royal Oak. (Photo courtesy of Grace Cage) Jerry Haines, who has ...