DEADLY Theater Review


It’s often said that in comedy, “timing is everything,” and the opening and closing of the Sacred Fools Theater Company’s production of Deadly is perfectly timed. The proverbial curtain lifted at the Broadway Main Stage on Friday the 13th and Deadly will run through Halloween weekend. Of course, it must be noted that while there may be some light moments in this spooky, macabre musical - notably during the droll song “The Southern Way” - Deadly is not a comedy.

 

MISS LILLY GETS BONED Theatre Review

In lesser hands, Rogue Machine Theatre’s production of Bekah Brunstetter’s Miss Lilly Gets Boned could have been a conventional crowd pleasing rom com. Instead, this one act play veers wildly off of the tried and true primrose path into uncharted territory which hasn’t been explored much on the boards since Eugene Ionesco’s 1959 Rhinoceros. (Interestingly, Rogue’s Co-Artistic Director, Guillermo Cienfuegos, helmed an unforgettable version of Ionesco’s play in 2017 at Pacific Resident Theatre, which like Rogue’s current venue is in Venice.)

 

Does Cory Booker’s Pro-Nuke Stance Disqualify Him?

Senator Cory Booker has become a Pro-Nuke Holocaust Denier and must not be president or vice.

As desperate mostly-young millions march worldwide for the survival of our Earth, Booker embraces explosive atomic 500-F climate killing machines that are roasting Her.

 

As desperate mostly-young millions march worldwide for the survival of our Earth, Booker embraces explosive atomic 500-F climate killing machines that are roasting Her.

Any of our 96 badly run, rarely inspected US nukes could explode into a nuclear holocaust at any time.

In Booker’s New Jersey, three dying public-subsidized nukes spew heat, radiation, and carbon. Their safety is “guaranteed” by Trump’s fake Nuclear Regulatory Commission. They’re dangerously decrepit, but what’s he done to guarantee their safety? (Hint: they can’t get private insurance).

Now he’s Trump-style slandering the global grassroots safe energy movement for demanding nuke accountability.

Nuke reactors spew gargantuan quantities of waste heat and deadly radiation. That includes Carbon 14, a global warming agent.

New book exposes ugly truths about American exceptionalism

TORONTO (Canada), September 25 – If the United States is to be trusted again as a reliable, constitutional democracy, it will have to find the collective courage to break through decades of denial and address an array of ugly truths about itself and the role it plays on the world stage, according a scathing new book by seasoned American journalist William Boardman.              Ed Shiller, publisher of Toronto-based Yorkland Publishing, calls Boardman’s newly published EXCEPTIONAL – American Exceptionalism Takes Its Toll “a radical act that exposes the self-deception and evasion induced by American exceptionalism. The book addresses unpalatable American realities in an effort to contribute to radical change before we’ve pitched too far into the abyss.”  In the introduction to EXCEPTIONAL, an anthology of Boardman’s recent political essays, the author writes:  

American CIA Torture Techniques Were Developed at Canada’s McGill University

Many Canadians have been closely following the beginning of the Trump presidency, watching in shock and horror as Trump passes a series of authoritarian executive orders.

 

One executive order in particular, planned for the near future, is poised to resurrect one of the darkest chapters in recent American history. I’m talking about the potential reopening of CIA “black sites”—secret prisons where detainees were systematically tortured during the War on Terror.

 

In 2009, President Obama ordered that these black sites be closed, consigning the episode, perhaps prematurely, to history—alongside a long list of past American crimes.

Accompanying it on that list is a similarly chilling episode that played out right here in Montreal, but which has since been largely forgotten.

 

Imprisoning a Generation

Drawing of person with blindfold and words Stop Israeli Military Detention

Monday, September 23, 2019, 7:00 PM

Interfaith March for Peace and Justice Columbus

Woman in hijab talking into a megaphone
Sunday, September 22, 3:30-6pm, beginning at Genoa Park, 303 W. Broad St.

This event will begin at 3:30pm at Genoa Park with dedications for two local leaders who have died during the past year, Amber Evans and Rubén Castilla Herrera.

The march will step off at 4pm from Genoa Park, 303 W. Broad St.; we will then march to Bicentennial Park via the Broad St. bridge, the Ohio Statehouse, and W. Main St. If you cannot march, please join us at Bicentennial Park.

The Interfaith March for Peace and Justice is a nonpartisan event meant to affirm the freedom of religion and to condemn all acts of discrimination directed towards people because of their religion, race, or place of origin.

THE SURVEILLANCE TRILOGY Theater Review

 

 

The world premiere of Leda Siskind’s thought provoking, topical The Surveillance Trilogy is so perfectly timed - opening the same week that Edward Snowden’s book Permanent Record has been published and the Trump administration is mired in an alleged whistleblower scandal - that one of three things must have happened:

 

1) Trilogy’s publicist is a marketing mastermind who contrived for Snowden to reappear on the world stage and for the Inspector General/Director of National Intelligence/Trump whistleblower brouhaha the same week this play opened, as publicity stunts for Trilogy;

 

OR:

 

2) The playwright is a theatrical Nostradamus with the gift of prophecy;

 

OR:

 

3) The insightful Ms. Siskind has her finger on the pulse of our times.

 

LIVES IN ECOLOGY, by John Scales Avery

A new freely downloadable book

I would like to announce the publication of a book, which reviews the lives and thoughts of some of the women and men who have addressed the crucial problems of ecology and sustainability that we are currently facing. I have tried to let them speak to us in their own words.The book may be freely downloaded and circulated from the following link:

http://eacpe.org/app/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Lives-in-Ecology-by-John-Scales-Avery.pdf

We face an ecological crisis

The Environmental Impact of Fossil Fuels and Its Consequences

Smoking smokestacks and electrical poles with wires

While many countries around the world are making valiant efforts to reduce their usage of fossil fuels, the United States of America is still struggling with going green. The fossil fuel industries have a powerful hold over the federal government, and through their lobbying efforts, they have continually barred green legislation from coming to fruition.

The idea that we have 12 years to reverse the negative effects of climate change caused by the widespread use of fossil fuels is often shared, but many experts see that window rapidly closing. In order to combat the environmental impact of fossil fuels, education on just how serious the consequences of their continued use is paramount.

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