Don't forget Southwerk

There's a Berlin, Maine that's pronounced BUHR-lin.

Well, that's probably just styled up that way for real estate photo shoot purposes. One would hope Annie's decorating taste is more interesting than beige-and-white.

AHAHAHAHAHAA I will never own a home. NYC, I love you, but you're making me broke.

What would it take to build a few modern-day Olympias? The ancient Olympic games were always held in the same place. What if there were, say, two summer facilities and two winter facilities the games could alternate between? During the eight years between each use, the facility could be updated with financing…

Thank you for that. I can understand the pressures of an overnight deadline. Still, it seems a shameful to fall back on harsh words "dumpy," or "chubby," and I think it's fair to point out that the same words wouldn't have been used on a baritone who's at slightly less-than-barihunk status. "She looked unconvincing…

What I can't get over is how none of the reviews focus on the actual problem with Tara's appearance in the show: her costume and wig. James Jorden notes in other threads that Octavian (a male character who is portrayed by a woman) is usually cast as tall, thin, and androgynous. Far be it from me to disagree with La…

It's the prettiest hissy fit ever.

James, would you say it's fair that the criticisms should be leveled at the design team more than at Ms. Erraught? Her resume is full of pants roles: Romeo, Hansel, Sesto, Orlovsky. I can't imagine she's gotten this kind of criticism in all those productions as well.

A lovely post along these lines: A Taste of Their Own Medicine.

Senior pranks are what they are, but the creepiest part about this is the idea that someone knew the home addresses of all these students and went house-to-house, delivering the letter.

I used that phrase when FTD failed to deliver flowers to my girlfriend ON VALENTINE'S DAY. They offered a refund and a credit to a future purchase. "You're going to have to do better than that" got me double the credit.

Damn it, I meant to include a paragraph on the melody's life as a hymn tune. That was another critical point I wanted to make. It's just so pretty.

Serious question: is a melody always inextricable from one of its many social contexts? Does being used once in a way that we now find distasteful mean that it can never be used again? "The (Old) Rose Tree" became "Turkey in the Straw" became, unfortunately, "Zip Coon," and "Nigger Love A Watermelon Ha! Ha! Ha!" …

Oh God, you just made me flashback to one of my worst subway memories: a rat dragging a flattened rat in between the tracks.

"Minimum wage, I do not believe, was ever intended to be the minimum living wage..."

I loved Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. BUT! That show wasn't about Guy's cooking; it was about all this great cooking that he found all over the country. His own cooking show was always boring, predictable bar food or comfort food with some (not actually) novel twist.