Selecting the top performances of the year in and around Sacramento has always been a most difficult task, made even more so by our attempt to rank them from one to ten. For the year just passed, we count a full two dozen noteworthy performances and productions, all of which could easily be included […]
Archives for January 2011
2010 in Review: The News that Mattered
It will probably always be known as “twenty-ten,” the first of the two thousands to be so identified (since the aughts really aren’t so easily simplified). And so, it will be unique in at least that respect, the first year to be “vernacularized” in our new millennium. But other than that far from […]
Explaining the Inexplicable: the Blooming of the Tea Party
In 2010, the Tea Party, that seemingly incoherent, non-descript movement that many scoffed at when it first appeared on the national scene a year earlier, achieved a form of legitimacy not realized by many of its predecessors. In electing members and sympathizers to the House of Representatives, the Senate, and to many state legislatures, […]
He’s No Clinton: Obama Strikes a Deal Few of His Supporters Like
It was a bit macabre to see Bill Clinton holding court with White House reporters last week at his old hangout, right down the hall from the Oval Office. The current president was at his side, looking very much like an emcee who has introduced the main speaker for the evening and then forgotten […]