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Back in mid March, before the world shut down, I teamed up with Christopher the Conquered and my old friend John Young at Grand Phony Music to create a music video for one of Christopher’s new songs. The song is“Put It on Your Credit Card,”from the new album I Am Christopher. It is […]

One of my all-time favorite novels is Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. To me, the novel brings up questions about what makes us human and what makes us monstrous. In my favorite section of the novel, “The Creature” lives in a wood shed attached to a cottage in the forest. A poor family with a […]

Kim Wayans (of In Living Color) is currently starring in a hilarious and irreverent new play written by David Javerbaum. An Act of God is playing at Bristol Riverside Theatre through October 13, 2019. Imagine if God herself came down to earth, took control of Kim Wayans’body, and began disabusing us of all of […]

Gloria Steinem is perhaps one of the most inspiring leaders that is still alive in America today. She worked with many other women in a movement that sought a pretty simple and seemingly uncontroversial change in our society: equality between men and women. But here we are decades later, and the pay gap between men […]

Perhaps the biggest challenge facing the United States today is the issue of money in politics. Since the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Citizens United and McCutcheon cases, the money has flowed from all kinds of special interest groups into the coffers of political campaigns — sometimes surreptitiously. These campaign finance decisions have given corporations […]

We’ve all had get-togethers with old friends we haven’t seen in a while. And we usually have great expectations that it will be a ton of fun, like old times. That is the starting point for Rachel Bonds’new play at McCarter — Goodnight Nobody. Three old friends reconnect for a weekend at a cabin […]