Gabi Clayton Check out these great articles about my friends Steve Schalchlin and Jim Brochu and their musical coming to one of my favorite cities this August. In yesterday’s San Francisco Sentinel: THE BIG VOICE: God or Merman? Direct From Off-Broadway — A Special Event at the New Conservatory Theatre Centerby Seán Martinfield, Sentinel Fine Arts Critic …
The click of heels against the marble floors echoes through the halls as staffers hurry to happy hour, yoga or home. It’s 6:30 p.m., and the entire Dirksen Senate Office Building is rushing. Everyone except Hans Scheltema, who leans against the wall in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee room.0726 07 Scheltema, a hulking man …
Americans think their danger is terrorists,” said Roberts. “They don’t understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution. … The terrorists are not anything like the threat that we face to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution from our own government in the name of fighting terrorism. Americans …
For those readers following my medical follies, vertigo with nystagmus is what sent me to the doctor and then the emergency room yesterday afternoon for a few hours. That was after sleeping almost all day and an evening of being dizzy and throwing up. Yuck. http://www.med.nyu.edu/patientcare/library/article.html?ChunkIID=11471 Most cases of vertigo occur with nystagmus, an abnormal, …
According to a report not yet released, the Council on Science and Public Health of the American Medical Association has recommended that a chronic and widespread affliction of Americans be officially declared a psychiatric disorder. It has been named the Political Attention Deficit Disorder (PADD). It is recommended that the disorder be included in a …
A year ago we had Nazi’s in Olympia. Not In Our Town is a grassroots media campaign that helps communities battling hate to talk and learn from each other. Not In Our Town: Olympia, Washington Not In Our Town: Olympia, Washington 2 More about these stories at http://www.pbs.org/niot More info at http://www.theworkinggroup.org Unity in the …
Thirty years ago yesterday the lights went out in New York City. Alec and I were living in the storefront of Everything for Everybody (EFE) on 13th Street in the West Village in the meat packing warehouse district near the s&m bars down by the Hudson River. Noel was a year old and I was …
Prez “pre-emptively” saves all Repubs from becoming “prison bitches.” Dems: “Can he do that?” Allegedly reacting to some sort of hallucinogenic fever dream following an overlong bubble bath during which he reportedly sputtered lots of motorboat noises and ate one too many purple crayons, President Bush today made the stunning yet somehow entirely understandable announcement …