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September 5, 2015

Flight attendants party at Aurora Theatre

Flight attendants take off at Aurora Theatre They greet you at the door, they bring you a blanket, they serve you drinks and trays of food, they make sure your seat belt is fastened, and when it’s all over and your’e safely on the ground, they chirp a cheery good-bye.  Likely you’ll never see them again. They’re flight attendants, and you get to meet three of them off duty (boy, are they off...

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July 16, 2015

A Spanish classic at Cal Shakespeare

Cal Shakes mounts a dream of a play   When I was a kid, a bouncy song called “Sh-Boom,” featuring the lyric, “Life is but a dream,” was a big hit.  So was the movie The Bad Seed, about a sneaky monster of a child.  Though I couldn’t have guessed it, I had butted up against plot elements of 17th century Spanish playwright Calderon de la Barca’s classic, Life Is a Dream, now strutting its stuff, in a translation by Pulitzer Prize winner...

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