This two-disc set is a close look at Donovan's life, music, and, maybe even more interesting, his times.
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Theater Review (NYC): The Pumpkin Pie Show
Clay McLeod Chapman's story-monologues dig for the gory innards of the human soul.
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Love means deep affection or strong attraction between creatures, or between a creature and a thing or idea. As a verb, it means to feel such affection. Love is quite possibly the most important, yet the most mysterious, emotion. It takes many forms – familial love, love between friends, romantic …
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): To Barcelona! by Michael Niederman
In a new work, a playwright honors his grandfather and all the other Americans who illegally went to Spain to fight against Franco.
Read More »Moments of Redemption
Humanity rears its mild, non-hate-filled head. Twice in one day!
Read More »Photoshop
Adobe’s Photoshop is a computer software program for graphics editing. It has become the industry standard in its category. Available for both Macintosh and Windows computers, it was first released in 1990 and has remained one of Adobe’s strongest-selling and most iconic products through many updates. Photoshop has acquired cultural …
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Alaska is a U.S. state in the northwest corner of the North American continent. It featured in the news more than usual during the 2008 political season because of Republican Presidential candidate John McCain’s selection of Alaska’s Governor, Sarah Palin, as his running mate. The United States purchased the territory …
Read More »Book Review: Capote in Kansas – A Ghost Story by Kim Powers
What might have been a lovely and haunting story collapses under the double-team pressure of mawkishness and bad writing.
Read More »A Visit to Fort Totten
New York was too important a mercantile center to risk leaving vulnerable to an alliance between the Confederacy and the British.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): The Night Carter Was Bad by Ben Cikanek
Commitment problems are the standard male character flaw of our age, but "Carter" is a compelling, even sympathetic bastard.
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