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• My New Favorite Billboard Ad

  —Dave Alpert: I Know Where You're Going with That

  

  Earlier today, I discovered this gem of a billboard ad on my way home from the Arsenal Mall in Watertown, MA:

   

  It’s awesome.  I couldn’t have said it better myself.  In fact, I think my friends should all donate their pets to medical science.  It [...]

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:45pm EST
  by Dave Alpert

• Judicial Theatre Review of "The Overwhelming" at the Art Fuse

  —From the Journals of Ian Thal

  Bill Marx, Editor of The Art Fuse, is conducting a new experiment, the "judicial arts review." To quote Marx:As coverage of the arts in the conventional, mainstream media wanes, critical discussion of the arts online has settled into two extremes: there’s the corporate dream of an omnipotent “Google” reviewer for [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:08pm EST
  

• Two Audition Opportunities from the STC

  —Salem Theatre Company blog

  Audition Announcement – Naughty and Nice: A Christmas Repertory The Eight: Reindeer Monologues by Jeff Goode directed by Catherine M. Bertrand A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas directed by Caroline Watson-Felt Roles to be filled are as follows: 2 Men, 30+, Both actors will play 2 roles: one in The Eight: Reindeer Monologues [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:23pm EST
  by salemtheatre

• Brother Blue 1921-2009

  —From the Journals of Ian Thal

  On November Third, Brother Blue (Dr, Hugh Morgan Hill) left the land of the living. He took the title of "storyteller" but could be, and often was, described as a shaman, griot, or performance artist avant la lettre. He was a powerful presence in the Boston area as well as [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 10:16am EST
  

• Notes on Class

  —From the Journals of Ian Thal

  I've been following Professor Matthew Isaac Cohen's blog about his course on Bread and Puppet Theatre at Royal Halloway, University of London, with interest in part because my essay "Breaking with Bread and Puppet" which is both a narrative of my decision to stop working with the troupe as well' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:21am EST
  

• 123 Images from Halloween Night in Salem Massachusetts

  —RobertXGillis.com

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  2009 Halloween Night in Salem Massachusetts ROCKED!
  
  It’s a wild night of tens of thousands of costumed party-goers walking the streets of the bewitching seaport: part Mardi Gras, part New Years Eve, and all Halloween.
  
  Salem, the unofficial Halloween capital of the [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:02am EST
  by Robert Gillis