Piggies need a new home
Hank and Alex are owner surrendered pot belly pigs that are available at the San Martin Animal Shelter. Both are 1-year and 6 months old and have been neutered. If you’re interested in adopting the pigs, call the shelter at (408) 686-3900.
Speak-to-text isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
Recently I discovered that I have thumbs. Wait. I mean I always knew I had thumbs, obviously, but I recently discovered that my thumbs were terrible at texting. I think it’s because my thumbs aren’t 17. They haven’t spent their entire existence clicking away on a phone. So when I text, I use a painstaking method called “hunt and peck” with one finger.
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Sharks withstand 3-0 deficit but come up short in sweep
Vallie Bishop and the lavender of heaven
My neighbor, Rich Devlin, asked me to write this week's column
‘Understudy’: Unappreciated side of theatre
Webster’s definition for understudy: an actor who learns the part of another actor so as to serve as a substitute when necessary. Here is where prolific, Pulitzer Prize nominee, author and playwright Theresa Rebeck (recently creator of TV’s “Smash”) lets the fall out of what it means to be an understudy in this wacky, witty rendition of a Broadway play within a play by (wait for it) Franz Kafka.
