My city, like too many cities, has challenges with homelessness.
Calling A Spay A Spay: Trouble In River City’s Animal Shelter
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THE GOLDMAN STATE
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Horse Rescuer’s Children’s Book Leaves It All To “Chance”
If Beverly Barad were a horse whisperer, this is probably what you’d hear her murmur to one: “Come with me.”
One-Person Shows Being Readied for Fall (Or Obscurity)
As a theatre staple, the one-person show dates back to even before there were staples. Permit me to digress.
A Daughter-Mom Swimsuit Biz That’s in The “Loop”
Kristie Kemp is one of June Blackhurst’s 10 children but has the distinction of being the only one who’s in business with her mom.
(RE)UNION SOLDIERS: A WEEK OF PARTIAL RECALL
Two weeks ago I attended two reunions with Cynthia Larsen (whom I’ve coyly referred to as my OSSO—oh-so-significant-other—for entirely too long): (a) an annual two-day event with my high school theatre buddies; and (b) her three-day, 50-year high school reunion.
Of Windbreakers and Dads: A Survival Tale
My older brothers and I used to wonder what it would be like if our mom died before our dad. We agreed that unlike our resilient and social mom, (who would outlive him by about 30 years), our dad would be a little old man shuffling around a Sears store on a Saturday, wearing his tan London Fog windbreaker (with red plaid lining and cigarette holes), dark blue chinos and avocado green deck shoes.
Full (Or Empty) Freeways Ramp Up (Or Down) Thanks To Covid
Julie Virga tells me she’s noticed that since COVID changed our way of life, she has the freeways all to herself during the week (everyone’s working at home) but almost certainly encounters gridlock there on the weekends, when everyone is stir-crazy and desperate to go somewhere, anywhere.
Kevin Ferreira Boosts Unions and Youth
While the slogan for Delta Airlines is “We’re ready when you are,” the mega-carrier apparently thinks you should get ready a bit faster—especially if you’re taking up space for more than three hours in their “club lounge.”
Ol’ Joe and Ol’ Me: Covid Co-Horts
Don’t you find that the continuous commentary about Joe Biden’s age is getting a bit, well, old?
Jenna Abbott Means Business—In Every Job She’s Had
A few days after Jenna Abbott was hired to fill a position created expressly for her, her new bosses sent her packing.
