Stage Struck: Stories From the Heart

Stage Struck: Stories From the Heart

by | Oct 7, 2010 | Stage

I grew up in the small college town of Yellow Springs, Ohio, a world of woods, cornfields—and Shakespeare. Every summer for six glorious years, Antioch College mounted a Shakespeare festival led by Arthur Lithgow, an Antioch professor and consummate man of the...

Between the Lines: A Decade with Buoniconti

by | Oct 7, 2010 | News

Nearly 10 years ago to the day, I wrote a column about Stephen Buoniconti, then a 31-year-old assistant district attorney in Hampden County who was running against an entrenched Republican, Walter DeFilippi, for state rep in the 6th Hampden District. I remember...

Imperium Watch: Obama the Anticolonialist

by | Oct 7, 2010 | News

It wouldn’t have been surprising to see Dinesh D’Souza’s article “How Obama Thinks” on a far-right-wing blog. But it’s worth noticing when such a transparent attempt to discredit the president of the United States turns up in a...

Letters: What Do You Think?

by | Oct 7, 2010 | News

Higher Taxes Don’t Hurt According to that left-leaning, liberal rag “Forbes,” the following are the 10 happiest countries in the world: Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Sweden, Ireland, Canada, Switzerland, New Zealand, Norway and Belgium. One thing...

Letters: What Do You Think?

by | Oct 7, 2010 | News

Facebook: Good or Bad? Isn’t it funny (and a little hypocritical) that the Valley Advocate publishes an op-ed piece titled “Facebook Is Not Your Friend” in the September 23, 2010 edition and then in the classifieds section of the same edition runs an...