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Your Weekend Reader for Dec. 18-19
My Day-Timer tells me that this was the weekend I had set aside to do all my Christmas errands, which means -- they're not all going to get done again this year. Well, live and learn, they always...
Revenge? Redemption? You make the call in Majestic’s “Carol”
Arlee Olsen plays Scrooge, haunted by a projection of Karen Wohlwend as the Ghost of Marley, in this scene from "Choose Your Own Carol." The "offstage" actors are, from left to right: Rachel Kohler,...
Your Weekend Reader for Dec. 11-12
Happy holidays. Let me ruin your weekend by calling your attention to a blockbuster Atlantic story by Barton Gellman (he's the reporter who wrote the story outlining the strategy by then-President...
Your Weekend Reader for Dec. 4-5
I know: Christmas is just three weeks away. I know some of you are just about ready to wrap up your holiday preparations. I am not among you -- everything on my holiday checklist remains, um,...
Miss Bennet gets a makeover in ACT’s “Christmas at Pemberley”
Poor Mary Bennet. The middle child of the five Bennet sisters, she has been mostly relegated to the sidelines of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” for two centuries, while her older sisters Jane...
Your Weekend Reader for Nov. 27-28
Hey, it's the weekend right after Black Friday! Exhausted from the Thanksgiving meal? From frenzied shopping? If not ... why not? What kind of American are you? Only about five weeks remain in this...
Your Weekend Reader for Nov. 20-21
Thanksgiving is Thursday, and so I vowed to stuff this edition of Your Weekend Reader with stories that evoked some sense of gratitude -- and that vow lasted until Monday morning, when I read this...
Your Weekend Reader for Nov. 13-14
We started the last edition of Weekend Reader with a disturbing report close to home: a New York Times story about death threats being sent to a member of the Corvallis School Board. This week,...