Last night I went to go see The Civilians This Beautiful City, about Colorado Springs and the impact of the Evangelical Christian movement there.  For those of you who haven't seen the show (or read the reviews), while the Civilians were down there researching the show, the whole Ted Hagga...

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The details of Sharon Shoesmith's judicial challenge against the children's secretary, Ed Balls, first revealed by the Guardian last night, have been published today. In a statement, the lawyer acting for Shoesmith, the former Haringey children's services chief who was sacked in the wake of the Baby...

The final two plays that concluded the Alive Theatre’s second Cherry Poppin’ Festival confirmed what a unique undertaking the whole thing was. While both stories dealt with cosmological issues that represented choices we humans have to make, they couldn’t be any more different. One dealt with ...

People tend to have two reactions to crisis. They get conservatized, or they get radicalized.  Theatre in America has been in crisis for awhile; some would argue the regional theatre movement has been in crisis since it began (and since the Government didn't make good on its promise to fol...

While many people unfortunately disguise their alcohol consumption on Purim as being within the parameters set forth by Rema some several hundred years ago, it must be clear in no uncertain terms that Rabbi Isserles referred strictly to wine and not to other forms of inhebriating beverages, no matte...

Topics: A track by track review of ‘Red Light Fever’ from Darkness frontman Hot Leg. Listener emails, requests and a toast to Nick in Australia for the beer fund donation. Another toast to all of the donations for my SXSW fund. A Nashville Pussy show review. Music by: Ginger Hot Leg Nash...

Oh, we're almost done... And I'm sort of... actually, really quite... grateful. It's time for this show to be over.  There's a lot about it that is unique and awesome and works quite well, but it's dragged on for too long, and for me at least partially overstayed its welcom...

Warning! This post may be highly inflammatory to your “cloudy� vision of computing. My partner Mihaela Lica and I discussed the cloud earlier today, and she aptly pointed out; “There is a time and a place for everything and this is particularly true of computing in the cloud.� Cloud computin...

I think it's safe to say from reading A.O. Scott's review of Watchmen that he didn't really get- or apparently even bother to try to get- the original graphic novel. I'm a big fan of Scott's but his misreading of the book is kind of extraordinary: ...brutality is not merely part ...