“Do it in German,” Beth Harper said.
Harper, the guiding light of Portland Actors Conservatory, was talking with Simona Constantin, who after two years at the conservatory was trying to figure out what she should do for this week’s graduation showcase Wednesday through Saturday nights.
Constantin, whose English is way better than your German probably is, was [...]
I’m sitting at the beach, where I’ve been the past week, and I’m thinking about time.
Cape Foulweather is out there, a spit in the ocean to the north, so shrouded in fog that I can’t see it at all. A little to the south, also invisible, lies Gull Rock. Hard by it is Otter Rock, [...]
Today is the 150th anniversary of Big Ben’s first chime, and artdaily.org has a charming report on the celebration, which was highlighted with the playing of a new composition by Benjamin Till that involves ringing nearly 200 bells across central and east London. Some hadn’t been sounded in 60 years.
It was July 11, 1859 when [...]
Buying bras comes with major tenets that are never violated:
– If you like a bra it will not come in your size.
– Cute little bras will not come in your size.
– Anything with the name “Wonder Bra” will not come in your size.
– Sexy numbers that come with slogans like “Amazing Lift” will not come [...]
They’re back: the annual Bulwer-Lytton Awards, the cream of the crop of bad writing.
Except in this case it’s deliberately bad writing, short parody passages in emulation of the florid style of Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC, the 19th century British playwright, novelist and politician immortalized for his creation of the line [...]