Front Row Center By Michael Warren Quartet by Ronald Harwood Directed by Ann Swiston Four aging opera singers are residents in a Retirement Home for musicians and performers, and this play revives their memories of long-ago rivalries and triumphs. As usual with Harwood, the writing is wordy and sometimes pretentious – however, first-time director […]
View From The South Shore By Kerry Watsonkwatson@oscmanuals.com In my ten years of summering here each year “to finish a book,” always my excuse to leave the brutal Texas heat far behind, I have long been intrigued by the South Shore. Looking over from the summer places I’ve lived in from Chapala to Ajijic,
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The Quixotic Orozco By Gary Donalds As of late, and via an attempt to understand and hopefully blend more Into my soon-to- be adopted home in Mexico, I have taken to the history books and discovered an extremely complicated, rich in folklore, and often at times downright incredible morass of textured historical events that
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OUR LITERARY AWARDS—CIRCA 2012 THE 18TH OJO AWARDS LUNCHEON With Ed Tasca, John Ward and Roberto Oritz providing the super entertainment, the latest luncheon—which drew well over a hundred people—was one of our best ever. To our winners—heartiest congratulations, and to the other nominees, we send along our thanks, and say to them: Wait’ll Next
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez Mexico’s Most Mysterious Man At the height of his fame in the 1940’s, with his novels known in nearly every corner of the world, no one knew his real name. Some thought he was Ret Murat, a communist rabble-rouser in pre-Hitler Germany, others thought him the illegitimate son of
Aura, Ghosts and Such By Marnie Johnson A friend of mine believes in auras. I have never seen this ghostly glow and therefore don’t know if auras exist. At the same time, I’m aware that my friend does see them. She calls the glows ‘energy fields’ and tells me that everyone has an aura,
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Uncommon Common SenseBy Bill Frayer billfrayer@gmail.com Critical Thinking Is Subversive! When I used to attend the International Conference on Critical Thinking in California each year, I became convinced that teaching students to think clearly was not only desirable, but possibly essential to finding our way out of the morass of political gridlock we find
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GRINGA VS. COBBLESTONES By Carol Curtis When living in northern New England, sliding on the ice was always a worry. Each winter, Gary and I would pray that we would survive another icy slip n’ slide season; each winter one of us came close to ending our time on earth by a misstep on
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Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson They say that a little learning is a dangerous thing and I found this out to my cost when I played this hand during my summer sojourn in Toronto. As herself had the day off for good behaviour, I was playing with another partner at Hazel’s, probably
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