By Bob Hicks
CRACK! DOOM! CRACK! DOOM!
The sky splits above the high desert. Great bursts of lightning roil the midnight blackness with a frenzy of white heat. The thunder rattles deeply like the cries of gods at war, and the rain is rain — hard, fast, fierce, a gullywash of frantic energy that, soon spent, will [...]
By Laura Grimes
Many laws are writ about packing. Pack food. Pack water. Pack enough underwear so as not to run out. Many more laws take it in the shorts, laws that are never violated under any circumstance. Herewith are writ the laws that take it in the shorts:
By Laura Grimes
The Pantsless Brother was passing through town recently, but I was prepared this time. Gas or no gas, I found him some pants. Whatcha think?
A clever friend sent the photo to me, and she can’t remember where it came from. Gotta love those flames on top of the head. But is that … [...]
Delores Pander “was made of stern stuff, but laughter and a zest for life itself were so much a part of her it’s hard to believe, or accept, that she’s gone,” Martha Ullman West wrote in this recent tribute.
Friends and admirers of Pander, who died June 24 at age 71, are invited to [...]
Portland Opera didn’t exactly go to Hell and back to make its first commercial recording. Or maybe it did.
Can it really have been only last November that Philip Glass’s opera Orphee, based on Jean Cocteau’s celebrated 1949 film version of the myth about the man who lost his love by looking back at her as [...]