By Ernest Kearney — In his 1944 play No Exit, Jean-Paul Sartre famously penned, “Hell is other people.” In The Dog
By Ernest Kearney — This year the TVO crew and I saw 76 shows and from those, here are THE TVOLUTION 2019 Fringe Awards…
It’s a safe bet that more people want Trump out of office than want him in. Hell, that was true on Election Day 2016.
Sigh… More than twenty Democrats are running for president, and none of them will stuff Trump’s hairpiece down his throat—the one thing I would
By Steve Schlich — My premise is brutal: business is a cross between a dictatorship and a junta …which makes government run as a
by Darwyn Carson — Time to Gird Your Loins everybody. If you haven't refreshed your memory yet, there's plenty of time and opportunity to
By Steve Schlich — Above: #PlaidShirtGuy mocks Trump at a Montana rally. He (and friends) were eventually shooed off-camera, but the video is internet-immortal.
By Ernest Kearney — It always pleases me when I revisit a film after many years and find that it’s as good as I
By Steve Schlich — Admit it: you’ve clicked on the link “How the Right Lost Its Mind” and read with anxious hope that somehow, naming
By Ernest Kearney — In these turbulent and twisting times that find so many bewildered and baffled, suckered punched by the events of the
by Ernest Kearney — The origins of Taiko drumming in Japan is lost in that vast attic called history, but the conservative scholars will
by Ernest Kearney — Forough Farrokhzad was the subject of Sussan Deyhim’s The House is Black which I recently reviewed at the Wallis Annenberg
By Ernest Kearney — The other night my lovely wife Marlene and I were out walking with a couple of friends, after a pleasant
The audience has come to The Lovelace Studio Theatre in the Wallis Center for the Performing Arts, in expectation of a theatrical interpretation of
by Ernest Kearney — The Fountain Theatre’s West Coast Premiere of “The Chosen,” adapted for the stage Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok—author of the
Above: Screen grab from a YouTube video of the 2018 Golden Globes on NBC. There are so many ways to be angry at Trump, and
There are identifiable years in the history of this nation that are shrouded in a foreboding of dire times ahead; 1860, 1877, 1914, 1918,
Imagine a petting zoo where Caffè Latte is served. Or imagine you’re in the mood to find a cat to enhance your life when
by Darwyn Carson — Monopoly, I would wager, was always one of the first go-to games of choice amongst friends and family members. Contributor
Loser! The Tweet Defeat of Donald Trump did not begin with “Liddle’ Bob Corker” and his oh-so-devastating viral tweet: https://twitter.com/SenBobCorker/status/917045348820049920? Wham! Impressive. But first blood was drawn
by Ernest Kearney — I do have a soft spot for weird sci-fi flicks - The History of Future Folk (2013), John Carpenter’s Dark