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November 2008

11/26/08 Hot Toddy Holiday Two Dudes A-Drinking Before you know it, Thanksgiving will be over and everyone will need a drink. Or three. In Drinking & Writing Vol. IV: The 12 Steps of Xmas, Neo-Futurists Steve Mosqueda and Phil Ridarelli ruminate on hard-drinking authors from Kerouac to Bukowski to Cheever and Capote, as well as on their own drunken... Posted at 07:44 AM in Marquee | Permalink | Comments (0)

11/21/08 What the Dickens? Scrooged! Stores have had their halls decked since Halloween, but for those of us not running a retail establishment, the holiday season is just getting started. This year, leave consumer culture to the mallrats (who has money for excessive shopping anyway?) and go rogue with a couple of irreverent holiday... Posted at 06:46 AM in Marquee | Permalink | Comments (0)

11/14/08 One Size Fitz All Great Scott! F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a classic tale of wealth, privilege, consequence, and the schism between the haves and have-nots. It’s also, as you probably remember from high school, a full-length book—which means Gatz, a marathon theatrical staging of the unabridged novel by the New York troupe Elevator Repair Service, runs a good six-plus... Posted at 10:00 AM in Marquee | Permalink | Comments (0)

11/07/08 Double, Double Toil and Trouble It’s been an emotional week, but election-day jitters are nothing compared to the 400-hundred-year-and-counting eau de anxiety that clings to Macbeth. The backstage whispers—Ghosts! Accidents! Funny business!—are almost as old as the play itself, but Radio Macbeth blows the... Posted at 09:58 AM in Marquee | Permalink | Comments (0)

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