Dream Within a Dream!
The days of watching figures dance across computer screens rather than stages are steadily coming to an end. The Hult Center for the Performing Arts … Continue reading
Year: 2021
There Will Be Oil
Everyone knows about 4/20 but 7/10 celebrates another form of cannabis
4/20 is about as mainstream as it gets for cannabis holidays, but the industry has been celebrating another date the past few years: 7/10. Read … Continue reading
Tell Congress To Help Renters
Great to see local efforts to provide affordable housing (“Affordable Housing Rises from the Rubble” by Henry Houston, EW 6/23). Congress is currently considering legislation … Continue reading
The Vietnam (Letters) War Continues
Alex Li asserts in his 6/10 letter that baby boomer activism after Vietnam “died on the vine” and that “your activism did not enter your … Continue reading
Classic Jam
Equal parts sugar and fruit for real old-fashioned jam
I grew up in England with a yard loaded with fruit and a mother who was a bit of an overachiever in the jam department. Perhaps … Continue reading
No One Misses Donald Rumsfeld
Another architect of U.S. imperialism bites the dust. Donald Rumsfeld went to Baghdad after Saddam Hussein had gassed his own people with chemical weapons provided … Continue reading
Slant
Kudos to Rick Steves for his July 3 PBS travel show on the Alps. He often mentioned global climate change and what it is doing … Continue reading
Don’t Return To ‘Normal’ Just Yet
It is good to be able to meet people in person again, to go many places without a mask, to feel more relaxed after receiving … Continue reading
Truth Hurts
Perhaps I should feel complimented that Annie Kayner thinks I’m decades younger in her “OK Millennials” reply (EW 6/24) to my “Boomers Sold Out” letter … Continue reading
A Very Earnest Fannie
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival rebounds from the pandemic with a rushed and borrowed show — and no Shakespeare
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has had a very rough couple of years. Already hurting from the late summer wildfires whose billowing smoke shut down performances … Continue reading