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The 2009 Tony Award-winning play God Of Carnage opened at the Morgan Hill Playhouse on April 8 and raised the bar on South Valley Civic Theatre presentations. We have talent here in our little town and it’s really good.

One of California’s most curious and intriguing landscapes is hidden in plain sight. You have certainly driven past it but may never have noticed it. And if you have, I suspect your reaction was like mine: What the heck is that, and what is it doing there?

Parents, let’s be honest with ourselves for a second.

Award-winning Off-Broadway production Nunsense is a real tickler and keeps the laughs coming from start to finish. Limelight Actors Theatre director Kevin Heath offers a fast-moving show that has great material and clever songs performed by five Limelight pros: Betsy Andrade, Roberta Vinkhuyzen, JoAnna Evans, Rosalind Farotte and Carol Harris.

I don’t know about you, but I have a terrible affliction called “I never know when to throw something away.” You may know this affliction by its other name, “hoarding.” OK, look, before you get all grossed out, it’s not like you have to weave through piles of old newspapers to get into my house. I don’t have stacks of moldy books and magazines lining the hallways. Nobody opens a closet door and has a bunch of Christmas decorations come crashing down on them.

From producer Cameron Mackintosh of Cats, Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables fame, along with original music and lyricists Claude-Michel Schonberg, Richard Maltby Jr. and Alain Boublil, Miss Saigon came in as the costliest of all his productions at $12 million.

Take a drive down any stretch of U.S. 101 south of San Jose and your nose will lead you to Gilroy. Famous for its aromatic allium, the garlic bulb, any Gilroyan will tell you it’s first thing they smell when they open their door. I’m a big fan of this pungent bulb. Aside from its obvious culinary uses, garlic has an abundance of health benefits. And, if you’ve ever forgotten to cut back your curly edible garlic-scapes, they make a beautiful flower.

Before you plant those homegrown seedlings or fragrant plants from the UCCE Master Gardeners’ Spring Garden Market (Saturday, April 16 at History Park in San Jose), do you have what it takes to make your garden successful?

Mix tradition, obsession and inflexibility into a pan of sushi and you have the basics of Kimber Lee’s “tokyo fish story’.

Is there anything that the city or anyone can do about the dumping of furniture on Las Animas near Murray? In just two days we've seen a big-screen TV, a love seat, a toilet, a mattress and some boxes, left near that intersection. Nearby, on Electa Court, there is more abandoned furniture, a carpet and boxes of junk. It seems like every week someone dumps something. I'm tired of seeing this, this area has turned into a dumping ground for everybody!