Alex Box Stadium Dumpy, But Grand
- June
- 4
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Last weekend at the Baton Rouge Regional several reporters were sitting around between games shooting the breeze about Alex Box Stadium. We talked about the splendid players, the great games we had seen through the years there.
We talked about how the place rocked when Skip Bertman was winning all those championships, about how big Ben [...]
Not So Entertaining These Days
- June
- 1
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As our daughter rose in the musical ranks, my husband and I attended every performance that we could. We rearranged work schedules to hear her play for two minutes. She would roll her eyes in humiliation as her parents sat beaming in the front row, trying desperately not to shout, “Encore, Encore” after her rousing [...]
Beidler Explains Cost Of Theater
- June
- 1
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If you missed the Harnett Regional Theatre production of Irvin Berlin’s “Annie Get Your Gun,” you missed a great evening of theater. Mellicent and I have enjoyed most of the big hits but had always passed this one by.
You would have been surprised. The stage setting was absolutely fabulous with brilliant lighting, and the sound [...]
Its Live Theater Not Pajama Party
- May
- 19
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I went to a show the other night and stood in the will-call line for my tickets. In front of me was a woman, who I remember nothing about, other than the fact she was wearing pajama bottoms — to the theater!
My heart sank. Have we really come to this? I felt like that when [...]
Selected Recent California Newspaper Editorials
- May
- 15
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Arnold Schwarzenegger has a chance to change California’s course significantly. Or, he can continue on the current disastrous path of more taxing, spending and borrowing in order to spend. We hope for a change, but experience tells us we’re probably in for more of the same.
We expect the governor to be unspectacularly predictable Wednesday when [...]
Henry Butlers PiaNOLA a captivating collection
- April
- 27
PiaNOLA opens with a song worthy of its name. There’s a swagger to Butler’s romp through “Basin Street Blues,” that emphasizes the pianist’s heavy right hand. At the same time, the breakneck arpeggios that usher the tune into its second half show that Butler has a deft touch, too. Another [...]
Facebook Catches Flak for Collaborative Translation Effort
- April
- 25
Generating Mounting Criticism
“We thought it’d be cool,” said Javier Olivan, international manager at Facebook, based in Palo Alto, Calif. “Our goal would be to hopefully have one day everybody on the planet on Facebook.”
Coolness aside, and many users are embracing the idea, other social networks aren’t “crowdsourcing” translation. The move is generating mounting criticism online, [...]
Coding for Dollars - and Bragging Rights
- April
- 25
Thunderdome for Devs
As an online software developers’ community, TopCoder.com is a chat room, practice range and gladiatorial arena for more than 145,000 members who compete for hundreds or thousands of dollars. Membership is free, said Hughes’ brother and cofounder, Robert Hughes, 38, TopCoder’s chief operating officer.
Online competition directly contributes to TopCoder’s business , which [...]
INSIGHTSA Busy Week by the Bay
- April
- 25
This last might seem surprising in light of NetSuite’s announcement that it was offering new enterprise capabilities for its target customer base. Specifically, the company said it now has fifty companies using its solution to run companies that operate in multiple countries with different currencies and accounting rules, so this was more than an [...]
