Many Democrats have been relishing the extended run of “Saturday Night Live”-like performances that the Republicans have been providing via their extended presidential nominating process.  If the cast of characters the party has paraded around the country for the last six months hasn’t been the actual actors on the venerable NBC comedy show, it […]

            When Rush Limbaugh was just a local talk show host in Sacramento (on AM station KFBK from 1984-’88), he wasn’t all that sure about a lot of things.  His politics were conservative, but they were unrefined enough that he regularly engaged with a U.C. Davis political science professor (Larry Berman) who would take him […]

            The Academy Awards are fun if you don’t take them too seriously.  Over the years many a completely forgettable film has gotten the top award while others that live on decades later have been rejected by the fickle voting members of the Academy.             This year the entire process of selecting the best film […]

(Note: This column was prepared by E. Haig, the Sacramento-based performing arts critic whom Ed Telfeyan most admires.)             The annual Hollywood love-fest, otherwise known as the Academy Awards Show, brought back host Billy Crystal (for the ninth time, but first since 2004), and made the most of his presence by playing up the comedy while […]