Tuesday, March 30, 2010

VaBook10: A Conversation from Left and Right

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Those who have been following my other blog ( Book Reviews by Rick Sincere , not Where Are the Copy Editors? ) know that I was guest bloggin...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Homophones

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The New York Daily News today has an article on its web site about Vice President Joe Biden using "colorful" language in introdu...
Monday, March 22, 2010

Today Stephen Sondheim Is 80

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Today is the 80th birthday of Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. To celebrate, I am reprinting (below) a review of three of ...
Friday, March 19, 2010

Hanover County, Va.: "We're Number 8!"

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The Daily Caller has compiled a list of the 100 most conservative counties in the United States.  Virginia has only three counties on the l...
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Reporting from the Virginia Festival of the Book

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Those who are interested in books, authors, scholars, literature, recent non-fiction, and words in general might like to see my short video ...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

'And Things That Go Bump in the Night'

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Beginning this week, the Kennedy Center is presenting three plays by Terrence McNally with a common theme derived from the playwright's...
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Interview with Zal Owen

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When I found out that Fiddler on the Roof would be playing at the National Theatre in April and May, I made a special request of the show...
Monday, March 15, 2010

American Century Theater to Present 'Stalag 17'

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The death this past weekend of actor Peter Graves at the age of 83 brings a certain, unexpected poignancy to the upcoming production of Sta...
Thursday, March 11, 2010

Pledge of Allegiance, Revisited

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Today the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that the use of the prepositional phrase "under God" in the Pledg...