THE VERY LAST GREEN THING, AN OPERA FOR KIDS—AND FOR OUR TIMES
CARY JOHN FRANKLIN’S opera The Very Last Green Thing has a cast of kids. This is most appropriate: Operas typically concern the past, something that kids (and we) can only … Continue reading
POKÉMON GO VERSUS THE CANADIAN MILITARY
DAUGHTER SUZ is an ardent player of Pokémon GO, the augmented-reality game wherein players chase digital animated creatures all over the world. And when I say “ardent,” I note with … Continue reading
CASES OF MISTAKEN IDENTITIES
LITERATURE—AND LIFE—are replete with mistaken identities. Confusion, chaos, and often hilarity follow, as exemplified in the following three tidbits. Gogol’s Government Inspector.. One of these mistaken identities made an earlier … Continue reading
ON MATTERS EGYPTIAN
I SEEM TO be accumulating a lot of ancient Egypt tidbits, of which several follow here. Philip Glass’s Akhnaten. A week prior to its December 7, 2019, final performance at … Continue reading
2019 IN REVIEW
BACK WHEN I started my R&T “Tech Tidbits” column in 1992, I was worried that one day I would run out of things to write about. A similar worry surfaced … Continue reading
VARSITY ESPORTS
LARSON’S FAR SIDE offered a laugh some 15 years ago titled “Hopeful Parents.” But who’s laughing today? Not people at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Varsity … Continue reading
ON RELIGIONS
SOMEONE ONCE SAID, “I think of myself as a flying buttress, supporting the church, but from without.” Another religious adage I like is “Lord, protect me from zealots.” These two … Continue reading
