Performance The role of Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams' great fever blister of a play, is for female actors what Hamlet is for men. You have to be of a certain age--make that experience--to i ... More
A Cat Not in Heat
PCS's timely production of Tennessee Williams' play offers few erotic sparks.
Performance The role of Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams' great fever blister of a play, is for female actors what Hamlet is for men. You have to be of a certain age--make that experience--to i ... More
Smile, BABY, Smile
In this fashionable film, Mona Lisa Smile's beauties are stuck in plastic wrap.
Movie Reviews & Stories Film, like fashion, follows the whims of popular culture. One of the trends this month's fashion magazines are celebrating is that "recycled" is the new new. Just as the colors pink (shocking or other ... More
The New Old School
Tobias Wolff: exposing the lies we tell ourselves.
Books "When we are green, still half-created," wrote Tobias Wolff in his much-lauded memoir This Boy's Life, "we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disposed to act in our best interes ... More
Woven Language
Sandra Cisneros braids strands of American and Mexican stories in her biggest book.
Books If you've read your way through a contemporary lit class in the past 20 years, then you've probably read The House on Mango Street. Sandra Cisneros' lively, spare, bestselling book helped bring ri ... More
the stuff of life: a daughter's memoir
Books the stuff of life: a daughter's memoir By Karen Karbo (Bloomsbury Books, 256 pages, $24.95) Karen Karbo's latest book starts off with a phone call and ends with the scattering of ashes, and the p ... More
Top Articles from Ellen Fagg
Boiling Over
The hard work of serving locally correct coffee. Queer Quarrels
How straight couples can learn to pick better fights. Smile, BABY, Smile
In this fashionable film, Mona Lisa Smile's beauties are stuck in plastic wrap. Comedy of Accents
A tarted-up Shakespearean gamble is one of the serious offerings of Ashland's early season. A Cat Not in Heat
PCS's timely production of Tennessee Williams' play offers few erotic sparks. Q&A: Peter Rock
A new book by the Portland writer focuses on the electrical charges of adolescence. Woven Language
Sandra Cisneros braids strands of American and Mexican stories in her biggest book. my kind of place
the stuff of life: a daughter's memoir
Cheap Eats 2005
The hard work of serving locally correct coffee. Queer Quarrels
How straight couples can learn to pick better fights. Smile, BABY, Smile
In this fashionable film, Mona Lisa Smile's beauties are stuck in plastic wrap. Comedy of Accents
A tarted-up Shakespearean gamble is one of the serious offerings of Ashland's early season. A Cat Not in Heat
PCS's timely production of Tennessee Williams' play offers few erotic sparks. Q&A: Peter Rock
A new book by the Portland writer focuses on the electrical charges of adolescence. Woven Language
Sandra Cisneros braids strands of American and Mexican stories in her biggest book. my kind of place
the stuff of life: a daughter's memoir
Cheap Eats 2005
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