Iolanthe: Gilbert & Sullivan Visit Bard

Final bow Who says they died decades ago? Both of them were at the Bard Sosnoff Theater bar last night drinking a nightcap. They live on despite rumors of their…

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Snowflakes in Wind

by Kevin T McEneaney Since there are ten quintillion molecules of water in a typical snowflake, they are unwilling to be alike as you or I, yet they appear to…

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Aphrodite attacked by Euripides at Bard College!

Sophia Barbatsuly as Aphrodite by Kevin T McEneaney As a student, I had studied classical Greek, but gave it up due to my fifty-hour work schedule, yet I did acquire…

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Freud and Lewis debate at Theatreworks

Freud’s Last Session at Theatreworks in New Milford offers superb acting in a two-person heavyweight drama: an elderly Sigmund Freud, played with biting wit by Francis A. Daley, duels verbally…

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Obverse Paën Obit

white bat flower by Kevin T McEneaney In yam family, but not a yammer; obviously, an obviator. A flower, not an oboe relative, which is to say florid conical shape:…

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Ten Chickens in Every Pot

by Bill Schlesinger “Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.” – Lyndon B. Johnson North Carolina, long known for embracing concentrated animal feeding…

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Quandary

by Kevin T McEneaney Today, on Valentine’s Day, young children draw hearts, hoping to love one another in the face of massive gun violence, now the leading cause of death…

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Bard Sosnoff: Big Orchestral Sound

by Kevin T McEneaney Bard’s Sosnoff Theater with The Orchestra Now presented a peculiar opening for its Valentine’s Day concert which opened with the 1821 Overture of Carl Maria von…

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Art as Communication

Houseboat, lithograph by Juan Miro by Kevin T McEneaney Neanderthals finger-painted in caves lit by fire, using various plant dyes for clothes: black, red, pink, or shades of ochre. Jewelry…

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