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'Ebenazio' is Jump-Start's comical gift of the seasonnew
Three things that no sane adult would want to go near throughout this season of institutionalized jollity: a shopping mall, a bowl game, and A Christmas Carol. "Bah, tonterías," says Ebenezer Scrooge in a Spanish translation of his derisive dismissal of Yuletide sentimentality.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
12-05-2012 |
Theater
Frisch's 'Firebugs' offers clarion call about fundamentalists in Iran and the U.S.new
Swiss playwright Max Frisch subtitled The Firebugs, a 1953 radio play that was adapted to the stage in 1958, A Learning-Play Without a Lesson.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
10-26-2012 |
Performance
Tags: Max Frisch
'Bent' plumbs Nazi Germany's pink triangulationnew
In 1979, when Bent premiered in a London production starring Ian McKellen, homosexuality was still actively persecuted and prosecuted as a sin and crime.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
07-29-2012 |
Performance
It was a Low, Dishonest Decadenew
Throughout the decade, while Osama bin Laden remained out of reach, gloating, Americans channeled their resentments by turning against one another. You heard it on the talk shows, where loathing gained the highest ratings.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
12-30-2009 |
Commentary
Pace Foods Heiress and Art Patron Diesnew
Linda Pace, dream in peace.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
07-05-2007 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
