The Zero Budget Festival

1. Festival OverviewUNESCO declared 2009 “The Year of Grotowski” in honor of the 10th anniversary of the death of Jerzy Grotowski, whom many consider to have been the most important theater director of the 20th century. The legacy of Grotowski´s work...

A Ten Gallon award

We've had a Wicker Man before, but the comment section below clearly occasions a new award: BACK FROM BOSPORUSTurns out it was a wrong number from Istanbul–just some dude wondering if the special was still on with the two shirts for the price of one...

Felt Like, War Prize

A week after announcing that he’s committing 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, President Obama flew to Geneva to accept the Nobel Peace Prize where he had to acknowledge the irony up front. Then, he went on to defend his decision to have our country...

Between the Lines: The City of Foreclosed Homes

From the highway, Springfield looked OK. The highway construction that seems a permanent condition on this stretch of Interstate 91 notwithstanding, the city seemed to doing its best to put a good foot forward: the Basketball Hall of Fame gleamed bright against the...