At the Prado, All the World’s a Shakespearean Stage
April 26, 2014
I’m pleased to report that I’ll be emceeing one of the five open-air stages at the San Diego Student Shakespeare Festival, to be held next
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I’m pleased to report that I’ll be emceeing one of the five open-air stages at the San Diego Student Shakespeare Festival, to be held next
In four days will arrive the 450th anniversary of the birth of the greatest playwright, poet and wordmaker who ever trod the earthly stage.
About a month ago, my U-T colleague in columny, Logan Jenkins, spotlighted a PETA ad displayed in the San Diego International Airport. “Welcome to
Fifty years ago today, Gen. Douglas MacArthur exited the earthly stage. When he retired from the military in 1951, he declaimed the famous line
Yo, readers: Between you and I, if you ain’t gonna speak English good, I’m gonna write less columns. Irregardless of me not doing nothing, I’ll
A hundred and seventy-five years ago Sunday, the most useful expression of universal communication ever devised first appeared in print. That word is OK,
The Irish are known not only for St. Patrick’s Day (coming up March 17), but also for the lyricism and sentiments of their toasts, often
Diogenes (412?-323 BCE) of Sinope was an ancient Greek philosopher who rejected the hollow values he saw in Athenian society. One sign of that integrity
Step through the golden gates of National Poetry Month. “There’s no money in poetry,” quoth poet laureate Robert Graves, “but there’s also no poetry in