LIVE REVIEW: The Moth at the Gerding Theater.

By Matthew Korfhage
800px-Emperor_Gum_Moth
how pretty the place is
good-looking theater
The Moth, a humble storytelling event from New York City that had in the meantime taken on epic dimensions due to an NPR show and a nuttily popular podcast.
theme song to the Andy Griffith Show
Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Tom Shillue,
Dick Gephardt
Kimberly Howard
Lt. Dan Choi
Rob Spillman's
Tin House
Boris Timanovsky
Ms. Murphy was very petite and had the manner of someone who felt, as a child, that she was not enough listened to. She not only took but also throttled the stage.
It involved, improbably, George Bush Senior and underage children and unpaid first-class rides and Rhode Island radio stations and All-Star Games and, somehow, Pete Goodyear (of Goodyear fame).

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Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage has lived in St. Louis, Chicago, Munich and Bordeaux, but comes from Portland, where he makes guides to the city and writes about food, booze and books. He likes the Oxford comma but can't use it in the newspaper.

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