Thankful For…

Words Silences Gentle sunrises Intense sunsets Those days the air brushes cheeks just rightly The climb from Prospect Street up Round Hill Road The sky Feet Floor Legs Teenagers’ hugs Eleven year-old boy’s hugs Kindergartner’s leaps into arms with...

Arieti Retires Quietly

Bob Arieti, who’s served as chief aide to the City Council since, I’m pretty sure, the Caleb Rice administration, has quietly retired. On Friday afternoon, Arieti sent an email to city councilors informing them that that was his last day on the job....
Summer Sizzle

Summer Sizzle

In Stick Fly, conflicts over race, class and privilege simmer and then boil over. Lydia R. Diamond’s comedy-drama, set in the luxurious Vineyard summer home of a prosperous African-American family, stirs the domestic pot when the two sons show up with their new...
Shining a Light on History

Shining a Light on History

Recalling a time of revolutionary turmoil and religious frenzy in mid-17th-century England, Caryl Churchill’s Light Shining in Buckinghamshire turns its beam on our own time as well. Written in 1976, as the ’60s impulse gave way to war-weary cynicism, the...

Between the Lines: What?s Love Got to Do With It?

There’s something rather romantic about the way Mitchell Etess, Mohegan Sun’s CEO, talks about his company’s new partnership with the Suffolk Downs racetrack. In a statement announcing the deal last week, Etess might have been describing two new...