Thank Gawd There Were No Elephants
I once attended, somewhat unwillingly, the national tour of The Rockettes: Christmas Edition or whatever it was called, when it played in Boston. I went...
Author: Carolyn
Pimp my Coffin
Ancient Egyptians might not’ve had a 401(k), but they were very, very confident that their version of “retirement” would be a glorious one. Talk about a...
Harry is the Potter-est
Harry Potter: The Exhibition opens at the Museum of Science in Boston on Sunday, October 25 at 9am, and you should get in line right...
Tosca, you kill me!
Me and opera, we go way back I went to my first opera, i Puritani by Bellini, when I was about 28. I went to...
The Play’s the Thing – Unless it’s Naught
Went to see the encore transmission of the Nation Theater‘s live broadcast of Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well at the Coolidge Corner, and well,...
Futonian Physics
We sleep on a futon. fu⋅ton [foo-ton, fyoo-] –noun a thin mattress, usually filled with layers of cotton batting and encased in cotton fabric, placed...
Why Women Like Facials
Why women like facials Men, when finding themselves adrift on the Sea of Gifts for Women (which, by the way, laps the shore of the...
I am Vegetarian, Hear me Roar
I am a vegetarian. That means I don’t eat meat. I don’t eat beef or chicken or fish, or anything made from them. I don’t...
Unique Amongst Backyard Vegetable Gardeners
I do believe that I am the only person in the history of the United States who has failed to grow zucchini. Last year, I...
A-Rorschaching We Will go
There’s some hullabaloo going on in the psychiatric community about the recent posting on Wikipedia of all ten the inkblots from Dr. Rorschach’s test. Apparently...