Blaine Lotz Blaine Lotz Answering the Cattle Call By Ronald Sklar Blaine Lotz doesn’t just sell cattle – he conducts them. Listening to him talk about auctioneering is like hearing a jazz musician explain improvisation: part discipline, part instinct, part invisible rhythm that lives in the body. A Kansas native born into a multigenerational auction family, Blaine approaches his craft with both old-school seriousness and an artist’s obsession with tone, harmony, and timing. B

HOLLYWOOD TREASURE — “Collector’s Warehouse” — Pictured: Joe Maddalena — Photo by: Evans Vestal Ward/Syfy Joe Maddalena Digging for Hollywood Treasure by Jay S. Jacobs If you have ever fantasized about tickling the ivories on Sam’s piano from  Casablanca , or maybe holding Han Solo’s blaster from the original  Star Wars , or following the Yellow Brick Road, then Joe Maddalena is your man. Maddalena has made a passion for the movies and collecting into a big-time business – a