Eric

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New Bible play teeters between promising work and Lifetime original movie

Posted Tue, Jan 24, 11:36 a.m.

Most of your review seems to me to be a misreading of the play. I found it powerful and engaging, and chock full of insights about family conflict. One of the few "must-sees" at the Rep. One thing I disagree with in particular, however, is your criticism that Bill does ...

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Starbucks new logo: hold the coffee

Posted Thu, Jan 6, 4:43 p.m.

I heard an interview with Starbucks founders Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker (now of Peets Coffee) debunking the popular Moby Dick myth. According to the founders, they closed their eyes and pointed at a map of Washington state. The finger landed on the small southeast Washington town of ...

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Ballet, butoh, and Magnificent Martha

Posted Wed, Nov 10, 8:14 a.m.

Twyla Tharp's mother owned the Tri-City Drive-In theater, between Redlands and San Bernardino, California. I don't know if she ran it. It was THE make-out spot for Redlands High School students! Her father owned a Dodge dealership in Rialto, California (home of Kaiser Steel). He always had a huge Dodge ...

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Sea Salt: a 'modern' food that takes us back to early times

Posted Fri, Sep 3, 1:31 p.m.

Ever since I discovered French "Fleurs de Sel" (salt flowers), not in Brittany but in the Camargue in Southern France where it also comes from, I have regularly ordered it from a Woodinville company: http://www.saltworks.us/.

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Death by a thousand cuts

Posted Fri, Aug 8, 9:03 a.m.

I'd like to see some analysis: This piece was full of emotional content, nostalgia, and even a little (interesting) history. But I was dissatisfied reading it. ...So here's this giant company selling off assets like there's no tomorrow. The headquarters is a stripped-down ghost town. All the company owns any ...

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How the Christmas cookie crumbles

Posted Mon, Dec 17, 10:16 a.m.

Yom Kippur: Lisa Albers wrote, "it's not as if we take collective notice of Yom Kippur, an arguably more important holiday than Hanukkah in the Jewish tradition." Er, no argument about it. Hanukkah is a decidedly minor holiday in the Jewish calendar, whose importance has been puffed by Christmas-envy. Yom ...

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