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The White Snake

By |2012-02-26T12:13:00-08:00February 26, 2012|osf, plays, Uncategorized|

Ashland, Oregon World Premiere Opening Performance, February 25, 2012 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival The White Snake Written and Directed by Mary ZimmermanPlaywright Mary Zimmerman has distilled an ancient, often modified, Chinese legend of The White Snake into a coherent, relevant, engrossing, artistic, and accessible 138-minute story. The text is stylized and full of Eastern cultural references, but Zimmerman’s lively, humorous, and rich approach somehow [“somehow” as in “the magic happens here”] honors the fable’s roots while letting it transcend its place and time of origin.  The White Snake avoids being artsy fartsy as Zimmerman’s works have been in the [...]

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Romeo and Juliet

By |2012-02-25T12:04:00-08:00February 25, 2012|osf, plays, Uncategorized|

Ashland, Oregon Opening Night at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare In Director Laird Williamson vision, Romeo and Juliet is a farcical melodramatic moral play filled with bawdy clowns.  It’s a slapstick tragedy, a category  underrepresented on modern stage.  The script’s only fault is the pesky obvious rhymes and flowery language that can be best gotten through in a quick pace at high volume.  Williamson has ordered up so many pelvic thrusts for the hormonal young men that the show is unsuitable for school tours.  What in other productions comes off as witty sexual innuendo, Williamson [...]

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Sequel’s People

By |2012-02-21T07:37:00-08:00February 21, 2012|Uncategorized|

As exhibitors, our favorite dog show is the Golden Gate Kennel Club’s event at the Cow Palace.  The show runs the last Saturday and Sunday of January every year, and it’s unusual because it is “benched.” That means the dogs in competition must come be on available for public viewing the whole day.  Just like at the Westminster show, at the Cow Palace dogs and their owners cannot show up just before ring time and leave as soon as judging is over. They have to remain on the bench so non-exhibitors can see them up close.For the past three years [...]

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Want to Make Sure Your Dog isn’t From a Puppy Mill?

By |2012-01-27T12:54:00-08:00January 27, 2012|dachshunds, sequel, Uncategorized|

Saturday and Sunday the Golden Gate Kennel Club holds its annual dog show at the San Francisco Cow Palace.  Come on down to find a responsible breeder for a healthy dog, or simply gawk at the variety of canines... there will be over 1,000 to stare at! This show is special.  At most dog shows the exhibitors show up just before their dog is judged.  They do last-minute fluffing, go into the ring, get their ribbons, and go home. At the Cow Palace the dogs have to be on a bench by 10 am and they cannot go home until [...]

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Why Cruise Lines May Not Be Safe After All

By |2012-01-21T15:29:00-08:00January 21, 2012|technorati, Uncategorized|

Our family cruises. We're almost to the perk level of getting free laundry on Princess Cruises, and we've persuaded nervous friends that they won't get seasick or stranded at sea when they book on one of today's cruise lines. But, the chronic lying, chaos, and blame passing by the brass associated with Carnival Corporation's wrecked Costa Concordia makes even us dedicated cruisers question the overall safety of our vacations.  Carnival quickly threw the ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, under the bus saying that the disaster was caused by "significant human error".  Schettino deserves the bus's tread marks. He has endlessly compounded his [...]

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Thank You for Ending the Iraq War

By |2011-12-19T18:31:00-08:00December 19, 2011|philippic, Uncategorized|

In Iowa President Obama’s campaign headquarters is the target of anti-war Occupiers demanding the dismantling of the “ U.S. military empire.” .  A photograph of the protesters taken Sunday shows fresh-faced people mugging for the camera in friendly sincerity.  The Occupiers were  apparently either oblivious or unmoved by the news that the final American troops were departing Iraq as they pitched their tents in a public opposition to the President who orchestrated and ordered the war’s end.In San Francisco, my church has been a hive of anti-Iraq war activity.  The peace-loving congregation wrapped the building up in anti-war tape one [...]

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Looking for News? Skip This Week’s Focus on the Debt-Reduction Super Committee

By |2011-11-22T06:02:00-08:00November 22, 2011|technorati, Uncategorized|

This week’s media frenzy is a super-sized, minute-by-minute coverage of the failure of the Congressional Super Committee to reach an agreement on cutting $1.2 Trillion from the budget deficit. We’re going to see lead stories detailing the up-to-the-second state of failed negotiations. And, every news outlet will have a juicy feature story with someone’s opinion about the disaster that the failure of the Super Committee will trigger or a local color angle.We’ll see haggard members of Congress coming out of midnight meetings. They’ll be an angry President bemoaning the lack of political cooperation. And, they’ll be heart-wrenching pictures of injured [...]

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