By Ernest Kearney — A friend poised a question to me. She had encountered, in a brief stretch of time, three people who launched into tirades in which they rained abuse down the generation known as the Baby Boomers, individuals born between 1946 and 1964. My
By Ernest Kearney — First of all, I don’t expect you to read this letter. Truthfully, I don’t expect you’ll ever be aware it was written. After all, this isn’t Yahoo! News or Huffington Post or CNN. It isn’t even Cracked.com. But I’m going to
By Ernest Kearney — What is often forgotten or overlooked — especially in our culture so devoted to the immediate and momentary sensorial impact typically found within the remoteness offered by our social media or cell phones — is that the theatre, the Queen of
By Ernest Kearney — The Star-Spangled Banner has had a rather checkered history. As most readers will remember from high school history classes – that is if they stayed awake – the lyrics of our national anthem were based on a poem,
Ernest Kearney — I love it when I’m describing a film to someone and I see that pallid perturbed look of perplexity slowly pervade their faces as they begin to suspect that I’m just screwing with them, that I’m concocting a ludicrous, “movie” simply to
by Ernest Kearney — Everyone should read Montaigne;* though he wrote nearly 500 years ago, there is hardly a writer today who speaks with such relevance for the modern soul. Some of Montaigne’s most significant writing was on the nature of “friendship.”
By Ernest Kearney — Concerning these theatre-faux video productions that have been dealt out to sate the “jonesing” of the culturally attuned, the progression has unfolded pretty much as one would expect. From “Dreadful” to “Okay, not frigging bad” to “Dang! They’re getting the hang
By Ernest Kearney — Now reading this, don’t go assuming that I’m just a left-leaning GOP-basher of long standing. Once upon a time, shortly before the Chicxulub crater was formed, I aligned myself with the policies of the GOP.
By Ernest Kearney — "Romeo & Juliet; Virtually" is another valiant effort to breach the great barrier of the current crisis and provide theatre to a hungry audience while maintaining social isolation. Conceived and directed by Miles Berman, this effort takes its cue from Ethan
By Ernest Kearney — These are trying times, no argument, but there is much that can be learned through adversity. Now I have always been a social creature; I love gathering with friends, love parties, love just “hanging out.”
