Keep Your Paws Off My Pills

by | Oct 23, 2008 | Cherchez La Femme

The Roman Catholic storeowner of the Diving Mercy Care Pharmacy in Chantilly, VA has amended the usual convenience store decorum code. Instead of "No shirt, no shoes, no service," manager Robert Semler has installed a "No candy, no soda, and no birth...
Gypsy Opera

Gypsy Opera

by | Oct 23, 2008 | Stage

If an explosion of high romance is what you desire, where better to travel than 19th-century Spain? In Georges Bizet's most famous operatic work, Carmen, a gypsy woman stirs up passion and drama with her unapologetic and hedonistic embrace of life.Teatro Linco...
By the Book

By the Book

by | Oct 23, 2008 | Stage

Starting this week, I'll be writing about theater in these pages on a regular basis. As befits this paper, I consider myself an advocate for the theater—someone who loves the stage, respects and admires the work of the individuals and companies who tread the...

ImperiumWatch: Get Ready for E Day

by | Oct 23, 2008 | News

A wave of foreclosures combined with a presidential election is a nearly perfect storm, an evil coincidence that might cause multitudes of people in foreclosure to lose their votes. In Michigan, Macomb County Republican Party chair James Carabelli reportedly said that...

Letters: What Do You Think?

by | Oct 23, 2008 | News

The short list of unregulated fiscal policies currently ignored in Congress includes: bankruptcy laws shredded to force individuals into an unending cycle of debt; balloon mortgage rates with no curbs on abuse; interest rates ranging from 24 percent up to 34 percent...