The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Published Date: August 17th, 2009
Category: life

8/15/09 We got into town in time to see the special matinee performance of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.  At the same time as I was watching the current production I had a movie in my mind of the production of the same show that I was in when I was a company member [...]

Bigfork Summer Playhouse Alumni Questionaire

Published Date: August 12th, 2009
Category: life

name address  Brooklyn, NEW YORK yada yada yada Married/partnered/children/pets YES Years you participated in the Bigfork Summer Playhouse: 1990 Names of productions and roles performed (if you remember). Shy in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Anytime Annie in 42nd Street, the youngest daughter, in the red and white dress while everyone else wore pastels, [...]

Running Out of Time

Published Date: August 8th, 2009
Category: life

  I thought we would spend some time at the Pacific Science Center with My Kid.  But, that didn’t happen.  We enjoyed hanging out in the hotel room as a family until it was time for The Husband to go have lunch with a former work colleague.  My Kid and I went swimming in the [...]

Golden Nose Awards

Published Date: April 21st, 2009
Category: life

Yes, the New York clown community has its own awards show. Flying under the radar at the Krane Theatre on the Lower East Side, last night, individuals in street clothes, were publicly acknowledged for their contributions to the art form of clown. Before and after the show there was socializing at Phoebe’s bar on Bowery [...]

Brother Can You Spare a Dime?

Published Date: November 15th, 2008
Category: life

Yesterday I read Tom Robbins story, in the Village Voice, http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-11-12/columns/how-obama-s-hopesters-took-ohio/ “I just know the one thing I’m going to do today is vote,” Wagner insisted. “I’m out of a job, and even the temp agencies are cutting back on hours. I’m hoping a lot of people make the right decision today for a president [...]

Weaned at Gunpoint

Published Date: May 23rd, 2008
Category: life

From the Salt Lake Tribune:  In its unanimous nine-page decision, the three-judge panel said the Department of Family and Protective Services Court of appeals ruling case was legally and factually insufficient and 51st District Judge Barbara Walther acted improperly when she ordered about 450 children to stay in state custody.      The court said the [...]