Light Opera Works Hits a Home Run With ‘Damn Yankees’
Evanston RoundTable, June 19, 2014 Light Opera Works kicked off its 34th season at Cahn Auditorium earlier this month with a rousing production of the
It is a vanity project and a writing closet, a treasure chest for news, views and reviews.
More prosaically, it provides a store house for my writing. Some of it is quirky – poems, sayings and asides. There are movie and book reviews, profiles and other articles from my past and present sojourn as a journalist. Plus my new book — The Dream Machine: A Novel of Future Past!
A thrilling, highly imaginative and tautly written journey back in time to find “the tool to unrule” a post-American fascism.
“Brilliant,” says National Book Award winner and MacArthur Genius Fellow Charles Johnson of “The Dream Machine: A Novel of Future Past.”
“A great tale, brilliantly told,” says violist and international recording artist Roger Chase. “There are surprises on every page, and the end, which comes only too soon, is a coda of marvelous drama, invention and imagination.”
Evanston RoundTable, June 19, 2014 Light Opera Works kicked off its 34th season at Cahn Auditorium earlier this month with a rousing production of the
The bright white glare of today never seems as golden as the sepia-toned glow of yesterday, yet it is real, here and now, the best
Death is “the one misery that makes us more miserable than all other creatures,” said Luther. Yes, but it should make us more ecstatic, too,
Disturb little, observe much. Coastal redwoods grow just an inch a year and some of them live to be a thousand.
The best antidote for sadness is hard work, diligent study and minute attention to the physical world, where every blade of grass and mote of dust
Death is nothing, and dying is the great spiritual journey to this acceptance.
Has there ever been a time when the mass of humanity looked more slovenly? Not really: even Neanderthals dressed better than we do. But there is a
In the future nearly all our retail spaces will be occupied by fast food franchises, health clinics, drug stores and banks. You can eat bad