Archive for February 2024
No Elk, No Creek, Now, No Restaurant
Elk Creek In A Restaurant Review Okay, here™s a new one: Reviewing a restaurant (well, actually a bar & grill), that just closed. Yep, the Elk Creek Inn located outside of McKean/Fairview, just off I-79, closed recently. How recently? The first week of February I went there to dine and write a review. By the…
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Life at 60: Things I Still Don’t Know An Essay In the first week of February, I turned 60. Happy birthday to me. Aside from a birthday greeting from an actual friend on Facebook, a sweet, out-of-the-blue text from my financial advisor, Debbie, and an old-school birthday card from my best friend and…
Read MoreEverything Will Be Okay & Space is Not Enough
Two for the Price of Free Admission a Dual Art Review at Allegheny College In his current show, Everything Will Be Okay, Ian F. Thomas confronts a singular topic: gun violence. His forthrightness offers an honest, aesthetic vision on a serious topic that Americans witness almost daily. My works are ruminations on this dark undercurrent…
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(Don’t) Pass the Duchess A Musical Review It’s every little girl’s dream to be a princess. Few are born royals, others may become royalty after marrying their Prince Charming. But only one was a princess and later became a princess. Again. Anastasia. (Okay, okay! I know her official title was grand duchess, but Google says…
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Tootsie A Theater Review Erie Playhouse™s present show asks two serious questions about success: First, how bad do you really want it? And, secondly, if you get it, was it really worth it? When blind ambition and I™ll-Show-You-Revenge join hands in one man™s frustrated psyche, the only answer can be¦a comedy musical, of course! Rejiggered…
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Weird Romance A Theater Review Love can sometimes turn divisive, but a current Erie play is divisional. But it™s a good thing. It™s evident in the Performing Artists Collective Alliance™s current production, Weird Romance. A two-tale, one-cast musical comedy, it demonstrates that love can be found in the most unusual of circumstances. …
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