‘Cabaret’: Experiencing a parallel time
When Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall joined The Roundabout Theatre to recreate the Tony Award-winning Cabaret, they brought in a nastier, gaudier and cruder production than had ever been brought to any stage. If you have seen this play before, you will immediately feel how much further they went to bring the audience to back a time of incomprehensible foreboding.
With tribute and gratitude on Memorial Day
Memorial Day ... unofficially, it marks the beginning of summer.
Frys.com Open a success even before it began
To say the Frys.com Open was a rousing success last week, with Tiger Woods playing in front of a packed crowd down the street at CordeValle Golf Club, and Bryce Molder and Briny Baird exchanging paper cuts in a riveting six-hole, sudden-death playoff Sunday, would be inaccurate.
‘Shrek The Musical’: An escape to fantasy
What do you get when you stir up a burping ogre with a flatulence problem, a cheeky donkey, a sassy cookie, a delightful heroine, an optimistic Pinocchio, an egocentric villain you love to hate and just about all the fairy tale characters you can get under one roof? You get “Shrek the Musical.”
Facing the winter season of our lives
My neighbor Nelson Gabbard is now in the midst of the winter of
Spotted Wild Cats Spotted
Re: the recent story in the Times about a bobcat seen near Easy Street in Morgan Hill. These beautiful felines are indeed living amongst us. They’re becoming more “urbanized” because development is encroaching on their native habitats and driving them further into residential areas. They are searching for food and water. Bobcats are shy, solitary animals and will not attack humans, if left alone.
Remembering pieces of history
Most objects can perform a function or purpose, but only a rare few can serve as a portal into the past. What if a piece of fabric could take you back in time?
