It hardly came as a surprise when Hillary Clinton announced (via a web posting) that she is all-in for the 2016 presidential election.  Nor is it particularly difficult to envision her having the Democratic Party’s nomination wrapped up by this time next year.  Yes, she will have token opposition (Maryland’s Governor, Martin O’Malley, for one, […]

Lang Lang, the rock star pianist, is now the pre-eminent virtuoso soloist on the classical concert scene, and he provided ample proof of that fact in his bravura performance at the Mondavi Center (on the campus of U.C. Davis) last month.  Performing a program of Bach, Tchaikovsky, and Chopin, he electrified his instrument and his […]

“Baseball breaks your heart; it is designed to break your heart.               The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins;               It blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and the evenings;               And then, as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone.” […]

Carly Mensch must have wanted to accomplish something meaningful in writing “Oblivion.”  At least that’s the feeling we had after sitting through the unenlightening production of her play at the B Street Theatre this week.  But whatever intention she had was lost on us in the Buck Busfield directed two-act production. The four-member cast tries […]