Book Review: Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
No matter what Peter Carey writes, there’s always a playful extravagance in his work, coupled with pleasurable, fast paced plot and linguistic gorgeousness. As with Illywacker, Parrot and Olivier in...
View ArticleTheatre Review (London): Danton’s Death at the National Theatre
The production of Danton’s Death at the National Theatre is pretty well everything you’d expect — well-acted, spectacularly staged, snappily directed. Toby Stephens is a charismatic Danton, and the set...
View ArticleDiscontented and Mad as Hell in Cheese Whiz Land
“I can’ts takes it no more…got-sta eat me spin-itch-gah.” Gulp, gulp, gulp! (Dan-danhh-danh-dannnneh from Beethoven’s fifth.) It now appears as Madison is besieged, so goes the nation. But should,...
View ArticleBook Review: Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
Isabelle Allende’s novel, Island Beneath the Sea, is a timeless tale about the nature of power and how even the most powerless of people — a fictional 18th Century African slave woman named Zarité or...
View ArticleBook Review: The Valley of Heaven and Hell: Cycling in the Shadow of...
Imagine being on vacation and spending the time cycling through France. In The Valley of Heaven and Hell: Cycling in the Shadow of Marie-Antoinette by Susie Kelly, she introduces us to both the beauty...
View ArticleDisdain for Herman Cain and His Ilk
During the Great Depression, my grandfather, a native of Missouri, traveled from state to state for work. In 1937 he drove himself and his family from Kansas to California to get a job, which he did....
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Theater Review (Seattle): Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain...
There has scarcely been a musical theater phenomenon like Les Misérables, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil’s adaptation of Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel of lawbreaking and redemption, set against...
View ArticlePunish Your Enemies
Now that Barack Obama has returned from his victory lap which happened to take him around the world, where he has a considerably higher approval rating than 51 percent, one thing certain to outlast...
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DVD Review: Doctor Who – The Reign of Terror
The BBC finally released the Doctor Who eason one finale, The Reign of Terror on DVD this month. Besides Marco Polo (which is lost, but has already been released as a condensed reconstruction), this is...
View ArticleBook Review: Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
No matter what Peter Carey writes, there’s always a playful extravagance in his work, coupled with pleasurable, fast paced plot and linguistic gorgeousness. As with Illywacker, Parrot and Olivier in...
View ArticleTheatre Review (London): Danton’s Death at the National Theatre
The production of Danton’s Death at the National Theatre is pretty well everything you’d expect — well-acted, spectacularly staged, snappily directed. Toby Stephens is a charismatic Danton, and the set...
View ArticleDiscontented and Mad as Hell in Cheese Whiz Land
“I can’ts takes it no more…got-sta eat me spin-itch-gah.” Gulp, gulp, gulp! (Dan-danhh-danh-dannnneh from Beethoven’s fifth.) It now appears as Madison is besieged, so goes the nation. But should,...
View ArticleBook Review: Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
Isabelle Allende’s novel, Island Beneath the Sea, is a timeless tale about the nature of power and how even the most powerless of people — a fictional 18th Century African slave woman named Zarité or...
View ArticleBook Review: The Valley of Heaven and Hell: Cycling in the Shadow of...
Imagine being on vacation and spending the time cycling through France. In The Valley of Heaven and Hell: Cycling in the Shadow of Marie-Antoinette by Susie Kelly, she introduces us to both the beauty...
View ArticleDisdain for Herman Cain and His Ilk
During the Great Depression, my grandfather, a native of Missouri, traveled from state to state for work. In 1937 he drove himself and his family from Kansas to California to get a job, which he did....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Theater Review (Seattle): Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain...
There has scarcely been a musical theater phenomenon like Les Misérables, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil’s adaptation of Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel of lawbreaking and redemption, set against...
View ArticlePunish Your Enemies
Now that Barack Obama has returned from his victory lap which happened to take him around the world, where he has a considerably higher approval rating than 51 percent, one thing certain to outlast...
View ArticleClik here to view.
DVD Review: Doctor Who – The Reign of Terror
The BBC finally released the Doctor Who eason one finale, The Reign of Terror on DVD this month. Besides Marco Polo (which is lost, but has already been released as a condensed reconstruction), this is...
View ArticleBook Review: Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
No matter what Peter Carey writes, there’s always a playful extravagance in his work, coupled with pleasurable, fast paced plot and linguistic gorgeousness. As with Illywacker, Parrot and Olivier in...
View ArticleTheatre Review (London): Danton’s Death at the National Theatre
The production of Danton’s Death at the National Theatre is pretty well everything you’d expect — well-acted, spectacularly staged, snappily directed. Toby Stephens is a charismatic Danton, and the set...
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