What It Means
Catillation is an obsolete word meaning: to lick one's plate. It has nothing to do with cats, except that they catillate quite a bit.
Category Archives: Reporting
Wild Backyard: Early Spring 2024 Edition
Well, it’s finally happening! The daytime temperature is mild enough to shed one’s winter coat. The cherry blossoms are waning, the redbuds are just starting to show, the bulbs are poppin’ up all over, and spring greens are there for the picking. Continue reading
Truthful and Not-as-Truthful: Review of Spring Break at Round House
There’s a terrific event happening this weekend at Round House Theatre. On Friday night, I caught the first of three performances of the 22nd Annual Sarah Metzger Memorial Play, Spring Break, by the Teen Performance Company, Continue reading
Posted in Events, Media Review, Reporting
Tagged event, reporting, review, Round House Theatre
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Together At Last: Two Of My Favorite Things – Ice Cream and Guinness
Guinness-infused ice cream. Really! The Taylor folks (the PR firm for Guinness) sent me a sample of “Lucky Sundaes by Guinness,” just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. Continue reading
Posted in Eating, Product Review, Reporting
Tagged Goldbelly, Guinness, ice cream, Lucky Sundaes by Guinness, reporting, review, Tipsy Scoop
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Red February: Guinness For Lunar New Year, and So Much Merch
Wow. So much going on this month, and so much of it red! Continue reading
Posted in Eating, Events, Product Review, Reporting
Tagged event, Guinness, Guinness Luck of the Dragon, Harris Teeter, reporting, review, Valentines Day
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Mincemeat, Smoked Salmon and So Much Booze: The Seafarer Review
Four comrades meet for a poker party one Christmas Eve night, with a stranger invited to make up the number for five-card draw. Continue reading
Posted in Events, Media Review, Reporting
Tagged review, Round House Theatre, The Seafarer
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Jingle Berry, Jingle Merry: Smirnoff Limited Edition Vodka for Holiday Cheer
‘Tis the season for all sorts of special holiday versions of old favorite brands. And so, the merry elves at Taylor Strategies have sent along a Limited Edition of Smirnoff vodka to sample. Continue reading
Strutting and Fretting and Grilling and Eating
Since it’s a well-known fact that Shakespeare adapted the plots of existing plays for his own masterworks, no shade should be cast on Fat Ham’s playwright James Ijames for lifting the plot and major characters from Hamlet. What he builds on this scaffolding is all his own, totally enjoyable, and even a little profound. Continue reading
Posted in Media Review, Reporting
Tagged Fat Ham, Hamlet, reporting, review, Shakespeare, Studio Theatre
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Indistinguishable From Magic: Koji Up Close
Although far less familiar in the West, koji has been the foundation of Japanese cuisine for centuries. It’s rice (or another starch) inoculated with the fungus Aspergillus oryzae, and it’s the basic ingredient for soy sauce, sake, miso, rice vinegar and many other products. Now koji has become the trendy plaything of chefs all over the world. Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Eating, Events, Reporting
Tagged Carla Hall, cooking, event, koji, Les Dames D'Escoffier, Noma, Rene Redzepi, reporting, sake
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Holey Socks, Holy Smokes!
The success of a two-hander play depends on two things: the script and the relationship between the two players. In The Mountaintop, one sex has a slight advantage: she’s literally heavenly. Continue reading
Posted in Eating, Events, Media Review, Reporting
Tagged event, Martin Luther King jr, review, Round House Theatre, The Fourth Wall, The Mountaintop
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