If two performers meet on Christmas Day — or New Year’s Eve or Thanksgiving — one will certainly ask “Where’s your show tonight?” People in show biz work a lot of holidays.…

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I just got back from the post office, where I had a notice in my PO Box that I have a package for pickup. I took the notice and got into the looooonnnnggggg line winding through the lobby. At a time when the institution we call the U.S. mail is sinking faster than one can say "Titanic," I can't help but see the obvious reasons why, especially during the busiest time of their year. First, there was the usual "one" employee working behind the counter, helping us each one by one. I don't blame…

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Leaving someone behind is never easy.  Having someone leave you is even harder...especially in a public place like a bus station.  In this season of comings and goings, this poem echoes through the waiting rooms across America.

Katarina K. Guarascio's most recent book,…

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     My friend Elizabeth told me she was trying out for Anything Goes. Landmark Musicals holds its auditions…

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COMMUNITY BANDS TOGETHER TO CREATE

NOB HILL PARK & SHOP DECEMBER 15TH!

The 17th annual Nob Hill Shop and Stroll happened on December 2nd as planned, but hurricane-strength winds and brutal cold kept most shoppers at home. It was bad for business, and it couldn’t have come at a worse time for Nob…

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Were any of you at Lincoln Jr. High when a student named Jones led a rock fight with Vargas? It started during noon recess and lasted all afternoon. The principal hid out. Many windows on the east side were broken.

"Why read poetry?"  Now that's a question worth asking...especially in a column like this.  The exquisite passion of Zachary Kluckman in today's poem not only offers an explanation, it is itself an example of the joy of reading great works.

Kluckman is one of the…

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     When I first watched the video of Alice Tan Ridley singing on America’s Got Talent, I had the same reaction as the judges: surprise, awe and a shiver of joy. When I…

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Dick bills had a kids cowboy show on kob in the 50s. His theme song went like this

Riden down the trail to Albuquerque

Saddle bags all filled with beans and jerky

Heddin for k. Circle b the tv ranch for you and me k circle b in albuq.

Glen cambell was dick bills nephew he attended highland high. He played with his uncle bills band the sandia mountain boys at the paradise club east of album.

It seems obvious that last week's 50 mph wind storm was not the wind the poet is talking about.  Still, wind is wind, and it will take whatever is left on the branch.

 

Stewart S. Warren remains committed to clean water issues.  Besides writing, he heads…

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    Last week, I had to find a kid’s choir for the upcoming David Benoit show, A Charlie Brown…

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