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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

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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

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Review: Next To Normal at Round House

Next to Normal, the current offering at Round House, has an excellent pedigree (it’s won many theater awards, including multiple Tonys and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama). Continue reading

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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

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Three Odd Things: Holiday Edition

Just a little late for the Holiday Season, but not too late for the Post-Holiday Leftovers Season (which I hereby declare is the entire month of January), here is another edition of my continuing occasional series of things that trigger … Continue reading

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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

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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

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Think Inc. When Viewing Ink at Round House

What do you think of when you think of Rupert Murdoch?  A ruthless businessman who runs a billion-dollar world-wide publishing empire?  But did you know he acquired a rundown newspaper in 1969 and turned it into the best-selling tabloid in Britain inside of a year? Ink is that story. Continue reading

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Synergy and Serendipity at the National Book Festival

The National Book Festival attracted throngs of book-lovers to the Washington Convention Center. I was one of them. Continue reading

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Three Odd Things: Movie Tie-Ins

Supermarkets are a fount of inspiration for Catillation. Here’s a collection of the weirder movie tie-in products I’ve noticed in Harris Teeter and Giant lately. Continue reading

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