7/24/2008 3:09 PM
My apologies for not keeping up with this aspect of the blog as promised. One doesn't plan for a ballet story breaking out all of a sudden. So anyway – let's get back ...
Full Story
7/22/2008 8:07 AM
Tulsa Ballet and Ballet Oklahoma will dance to their own separate tunes, as the Oklahoma City dance company decided Monday night not to collaborate with Tulsa Ballet ...
Full Story
7/18/2008 2:18 PM
I received a press release announcing the offering for PBS' 'Masterpiece Mystery' season for 2009, which states that Agatha Christie's two most famous characters will ...
Full Story
7/18/2008 12:19 PM
I don't know how old this is, but a friend recently sent this clip to me, and I thought it was one of funniest things I've seen in a while. Joe Cocker's Woodstock ...
Full Story
7/18/2008 11:53 AM
I am like, it would seem, a great many people, who responded to the news that Kay Ryan was named the U.S. Poet Laureate with the question, 'Who?' I've been familiar ...
Full Story
7/17/2008 2:51 PM
It's only an estimate, but the recent run of 'The Phantom of the Opera' is believed to have affected the Tulsa economy to the tune of some $11 million. The League of ...
Full Story
7/17/2008 12:10 PM
Or maybe I should say 'murder' -- with those nice, irony-indicating quotation marks. I've spent a good portion of the last five summers involved in killing people, in ...
Full Story
7/14/2008 10:00 AM
It's one of the more bizarre ads in the 11 July 2008 issue of Entertainment Weekly: Page 58, right across from the magazine's review of the HBO show 'Generation Kill' ...
Full Story
7/13/2008 4:12 PM
I think most people, when they start to read a novel, have at least some small idea of the sort of story they are about to read. They’ve read a review of the book, or ...
Full Story
7/8/2008 4:47 PM
Novelist Ridley Pearson is an extremely successful writer. He's written 27 novels, all of which have remained in print, and many of which have occupied spaces on various ...
Full Story
7/8/2008 4:26 PM
The New York Times had an article a couple of days ago about this year being the 25th anniversary of 'surtitles' -- English translations of opera librettos projected ...
Full Story