Now that Donald Trump has selected his running-mate, the big media interest will be on whom Hillary Clinton will pick to run with her.  So much is made of these decisions, but do they really matter?  It’s certainly easy to say that they should.  The vice-president, after all, is both the understudy for the president […]

The Music Circus management’s decision to include a show clearly intended to appeal to pre-teens was fully realized last week with the production of “Seussical.”  The musical is unashamedly built off of the children’s stories by Dr. Seuss with music added that attempts to capture the spirit of the author’s humor and charm.  The production […]

In the fall of 1960, I was witness to a conversation regarding the Kennedy-Nixon presidential campaign.  My father and our next-door neighbor were engaged in a discussion on the merits of the two candidates.  We were driving somewhere, maybe to a baseball game, with three or four of us kids in the car.  Neither man […]

In case you haven’t noticed, we have passed the half-way mark of the year 2016.  With the end of several seasons of performances (Mondavi, in particular), the time seems right to note the ten best performances of the first half of the year.  With apologies for any that we may have missed that should be […]