Coronavirus calendar: Quarantine dispatches (Month 2: April 2020)
“April is the cruelest month.” (The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot, 1922) Throughout March, a line from Hamilton kept playing in my mind: “The » Read more
Pop culture
Sedona International Film Festival 2019: Silver Anniversary
Overheard at the start of this year’s Sedona International Film Festival, directed to festival director Patrick Schweiss: “Is this a good film? ‘Cause » Read more
Norway, September, 2017 (Part 1-Oslo)
Sunday, August 27-Monday, August 28, 2017 Getting older isn’t good for much, in my opinion. Wisdom? Maybe. Some perspective? Okay. The only » Read more
2017 Highlights
The short version I didn’t really try to set a new record for longest year’s end summary EVER, it was an EXCEPTIONALLY » Read more
Come From Away comes to New York, March 2017
Saturday, March 11, 2016 We were finally on our way to New York for the long-anticipated opening on Broadway of Come From » Read more
La Jolla Playhouse WoWs again! October 2015
The extraordinarily warm weekend of October 9-11, 2015 was further heated up by the 2cd biennial WoW (Without Walls) festival of theatre » Read more
What’s in a name?
In the first week of 2014, we saw a hilarious French movie, called in English “What’s in a Name?” (The French title » Read more
Seafoam sleepwalking with Basil Twist
With summer approaching, it seems appropriate to celebrate a beach based event, the World Premiere presentation of Basil Twist’s Seafoam Sleepwalk. This » Read more
Flights of fancy: Sedona Film Festival, February 2014
It takes a lot of stamina to fully participate in a film festival. More, apparently, than we have. At a minimum, there » Read more
San Miguel de Allende: Dia de los Muertos 2013
San Miguel de Allende (SMA) is legendary for its attraction for us Norteamericos. It was named a World Heritage Site in 2008 » Read more