From the Seattle Weekly, here’s refutation of the silly notion that audiences at classical concerts need to be free to be noisy, restless nuisances. Look: If you can’t manage to sit down, shut up and pay attention, you shouldn’t be allowed out of the house, not even to go to a movie.
My contribution to the latest Tucson Weekly:
Max Branscomb is back as the writer of Borderlands Theater's annual A Tucson Pastorela. That means the retelling of Lucifer's attempts to waylay the shepherds making their way to Bethlehem has returned to its old rhythm of gentle laughs.You’ll find the full review here.
Last year's more thoughtful treatment by Toni Press-Coffman has mostly fallen by the wayside (although she's still credited as a provider of "additional material"), and that's a pity, but it also makes sense: The nativity story has everything to do with faith, and hardly anything to do with reason. If you think too hard about what's going on, you may miss the message.
James Reel's cranky consideration of the fine arts and public radio in Tucson and beyond.
