School House - Home Grown Theatre
How refreshing! A theater that values its community, and a community that values its theater! This review showcases an organization with a special mission. Bravo!
Shoshana Wolfe
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How refreshing! A theater that values its community, and a community that values its theater! This review showcases an organization with a special mission. Bravo!
Shoshana Wolfe
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What a wonderful selection of cartoons, and the observations are very wry and illuminating! I enjoyed this article immensely.
Princess Gattis
I read riveted, then intrigued as the smile on my face emerged. Many thanks to Ned Bobkoff for a concise, articulate, entertaining and insightful story of the playwright's dilemma.
Sandra Hughes
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A "Lofty" article, Ned.
Chuck Cobb
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For sure, this is the answer to the everlasting misery and misunderstanding and lack of respect for the writer, especially the playwright. Cardboard cutouts with words coming through their frozen faces and hardly moving worth a damn. But wait a minute, we already have it. It's called--a Hollywood movie!
David F.
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Great article, Ned. I always considered you one of the "ultimate hipsters" from the generation just before mine. Articulate and spot-on, man. I think I was born one generation too late. I was watching a PBS special the other day about the heyday of Greenwich Village culture(50's and 60's), and longed for its return somewhere....anywhere. And I really liked the way you tied jazz music into the soothing of our country's wounded collective soul. We need it now more than ever. Thanks.
Chuck Cobb
Absolutely love the page opener with the montage of moving photos and the jazz playing! Veeerrry classy! I am the partner who accompanied Mr. Bobkoff to the Wild Magnolias blowout at Harro Ballroom. Being Native American myself, I felt it was an excellent opportunity for me to finally see the "Mardi Gras" Indians. I knew it would be a mix of influences, but it proved to be pure theater, as the author so expertly describes.This phantasmagoria is an excellent example of a kind of intercontinental cultural diaspora: when displaced peoples loose the homeland moorings, adaptability attaches itself to survival. On the way out, the lead "Spy Boy" autographed the CD I bought while I commented admiringly on the beadwork on his "outfit". Glancing behind him, however, I saw his feathered headdress lying unceremoniously on the floor. A Native American dancer would never let those feathers touch the floor. So much for authenticity. In terms of survival, however, perhaps he was the one who was admiring us, by way of imitation, after all. The "good time" became a sobering insight.
Rosalie Jones
Mr. Bobkoff knows his Jazz and we, the readers, are better off for it. Please write more reviews.
Les Marcott
Full disclosure...I am one of the photographers. Regardless, good article on the Fest. So much music you don't know what to do. Something for everyone who likes Jazz. If you don't like a particular group, just walk out and go across the street. Gets really hard to work my day job.
Kelley Yost
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