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Voulez-vous coucher avec Bah!
If you’re having a hard time this holiday season doling out your entertainment dollars, kill three birds with one stone. By catching a local performance of the holiday musical Moulin Scrooge, fans of comedic acting, over-the-top Jukebox musicals and old flaccid ...
Craptabulous!
The University of Colorado Boulder boasts many distinguished alumni. Famous scientists, authors and professional football players have all graduated from this hallowed institution. For many, including myself, the most noteworthy CU alumnus is by far Trey Parker, the ...
Here is the school. Here is the steeple.
The year is 2243. The Philadelphia Eagles have just won their first Super Bowl. And much to everyone’s surprise, God himself decides to take a leisurely stroll down 5th Avenue in New York City (now known as Little Beijing) with his arm ensconced firmly in the ...
The fractured future
For being a group with questionable taste and no income of its own, the young adult (or YA) demographic has achieved uber-dominance over the entertainment industry. Young adults devoured the adventures of Harry Potter on page and on screen, turning destitute single ...
From Germany with ennui
As the world contains innumerably more shades of grey (way more than 50) than blacks and whites, there are virtually never just “two types of people.” Be that as it may, a foolish consistency is indeed the hobgoblin of little minds. So for the sake of this exercise ...
Beyond Einstein and Bohr’s science
It wasn’t all equations and formulas for physics giants Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. In the midst of their debates and disagreements on quantum mechanics, they shared mutual philosophies on beauty, children and fairy tales...
´Real World: Sesame Street´
A few weeks ago, I reviewed The Book of Mormon. Most people probably think that that musical’s profane, hilariously irreverent worldview sprang solely from the warped minds of South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. And while Parker and Stone certainly ...
Heart and soul
Next to “Chopsticks,” “Heart and Soul” is probably the most recognizable and easily played piano tune in the Western world. You may remember it from its appearance in the movie Big when Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia danced it on the giant keyboard in the Manhattan FAO ...
Hypnotist/comedian Flip Orley wants you to look into his eyes
Here’s a thought experiment. Take a deep breath and hold it. Imagine that the people around you are friends from the trailer park in Alabama that, yes, you live in. You are all here in New York City, that’s where you are right now, to go on a TV talk show to tell the...
How many Mormons does it take to baptize a Ugandan?
Be you Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Atheist, Sikh, Satanist, Wiccan or Undecided, you’re most likely familiar with the Judeo-Christian creation belief in which the entire universe sprang into existence thanks to God’s diligent efforts over a particularly ...
Poetry in motion
With all the effort it takes to get students simply to show up for class, do schools even teach poetry any longer? Does the current crop of K-12 get any exposure to meter and verse that isn’t contained in a rap song? Do they have any inkling who Walt Whitman, Oscar ...
