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Careful What You Wish For….
I didn’t tell anyone what I did last fall. I just quietly filled out the application and took it by a mailbox. My stomach was queasy. I shut my eyes and took a deep breath. Put it in the mail slot.
Ka-thunk. It’s done.
Didn’t mention it to my husband or anyone else…. »
Challenges To Marketing the Arts
It is an undeniable trend: arts attendees are aging and growing smaller. According to the NEA, around 78 million people — 35 percent — attended a museum or performance in 2009, but that’s down from 40 percent in 2002. In response to this trend, new approaches to marketing will be required in… »
Shear Madness
Who doesn’t enjoy seeing the mechanisms of a watch — those miniature wheels creasing through one other in the intricate dance of a perfect tick-tock-tick? Taking in a professional production of Shear Madness — like the one that’s been playing at the Kennedy Center’s Theater Lab for over 20 years — is to see inside… »
Since We’re All Here: Short, Painless Family Traditions
November 21, 2009
Holidays tend to come and go in a whirlwind. As they fly by at 80 mph, we hear phrases such as “Don’t forget the meaning of the—,” “Make special family time for—,” “Holiday traditions can—.” And most of us contemplate these phrases and give serious time to consider their full meaning and… »
A Scientist, a Whale and a Tourist Walk into a Bar…
If you could place Australia’s Great Barrier Reef along the east coast of America, the thing would stretch from Maine to Florida. At twelve hundred miles long, the Great Barrier Reef (or GBR) is indeed great, the largest coral marine system on the planet and the only living entity able to be seen from… »
Fairs to Remember
When I was a little girl growing up in suburban Arlington, I read about country fairs in books. They always sounded richly mysterious — wonderful playgrounds where amazing things could happen at any moment. At a fair, a girl might turn a corner to find a pony ride, an enormous pig, a pie-eating… »