Making His Mark: Hal Holbrook Brings Legendary Twain Act To Popejoy Hal Holbrook Brings Legendary Twain Act To Popejoy When Mark Twain wrote that “we can’t reach old age by another man’s road,” he must not have known Hal Holbrook was coming.Seventy [...] Sam Adams \ Mar 26, 2015 Read More Hal Holbrook as himself
Brothers In Smarm: Comics Bryan Cook And Derek Sheen Transport Odd-Couple Dynamic To The Guild Comics Bryan Cook And Derek Sheen Transport Odd-Couple Dynamic To The Guild The onstage personas of journeymen comedians Bryan Cook and Derek Sheen are as diametrically opposed as oil and water. In their case, perhaps [...] Sam Adams \ Feb 26, 2015 Read More
Changing The World In Two Minutes Just a few words can make all the difference. In the 2010 British comedy The Trip, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon riff on [...] Sam Adams \ Nov 20, 2014 Read More Artist Alexis Elton has 140 seconds to tell you about her seed exchange project. (Santa Fe Art Institute/Nicole Davis)
Culture Shock: It’s The End Of The World, And We Love It It’s The End Of The World, And We Love It If I hear one more damned story about the zombie apocalypse, I swear I’ll … read it like all the others that came [...] Sam Adams \ Aug 23, 2012 Read More
The Daily Word In Pussy Riot, Excessive Force, Presidential Brosefs Pussy Riot gets two years for speaking out against Putin.Several articles on the Washington Post today are pissed off at President Obama. Here’s [...] Sam Adams \ Aug 16, 2012 Read More
Culture Shock: Melissa Morgan’s Earthy Opening In Madrid And Details On The Alibi’s Art Box Project Another Earth At first glance, painter Melissa Morgan’s Enter Anthropocene embraces an ethereal, flower-childlike bond between humans and nature. But that’s where Cassidy Watt—owner of [...] Sam Adams \ Aug 09, 2012 Read More "Bee Keeper"
Happy Birthday, Mr. President! While mindlessly web surfing, I came upon some ad that suggested I click on it to wish Barack Obama a happy birthday. Due [...] Sam Adams \ Aug 09, 2012 Read More
The Daily Word In The U.s. Winning, Chick-Fil-A Kiss-In, Jenna Jameson Hearts Mitt U.S. Olympians had a record-setting day with Gabby Douglas becoming the first African American to win the women’s gymnastics all-around and Michael Phelps [...] Sam Adams \ Aug 09, 2012 Read More
All Hail The Bard The Vortex Theatre is on its last weekend of shows in its last installment of the Will Power series—a run of Shakespearean productions. [...] Sam Adams \ Aug 02, 2012 Read More Ray Orley, Ed Chavez and Brian Haney are a comedic tour de force in The Winter’s Tale . (Photos by Alan Mitchell)
A Toast To The End Of The World Or Why Getting Drunk In The Postapocalyptic Landscape Is The Thing To Do John Bear reviewed Peter Heller’s postapocalyptic novel The Dog Stars in this week’s issue. It got me thinking about what life would be [...] Sam Adams \ Jul 26, 2012 Read More
