The Real Nightingale Stands Up
We love to tell stories, and no stories resonate more familiarly than the folk tales passed down for hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of years….
Read MoreWe love to tell stories, and no stories resonate more familiarly than the folk tales passed down for hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of years….
Read MoreStarting in 2003, Bright Star Touring Theatre began flipping the script on the rote notion of Black History Month. The company’s plays strive to…
Read MoreBill Peschel’s nonfiction romp Writers Gone Wild: The Feuds, Frolics, and Follies of Literature’s Great Adventurers, Drunkards, Lovers, Iconoclasts, and Misanthropes reveals the scandalous…
Read MoreIt’s not the most familiar of Jane Austen’s novels, but its themes are perhaps the most timeless. Sense & Sensibility concerns two sisters, Elinor…
Read MoreUnlike, say, the polarizing bagpipes, which are either revered or reviled, the poor recorder is most often simply dismissed. In its unfortunate plastic incarnation, the recorder…
Read MoreBlue-collar comedy is red-hot right now — witness the rise of Trae Crowder, aka “the liberal redneck,” whose left-leaning political rants, filmed on his…
Read MoreThose among us who are less that crafty, finding it a challenge to put together a template Christmas card, never mind engaging in the…
Read MoreJackie Tohn grew up in the entertainment industry and understands the business — and she also understands that, right now, the business is being…
Read MoreSubstitute the tech revolution for the Industrial Revolution, and you could reliably place Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus in our own time….
Read MoreScruffy, gravel-voiced songwriter Paul Westerberg, the elder statesmen of alternative ’80s-’90s rock, once shocked his flannel-shirted discipleship by declaring that no one had ever…
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