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Winged Ox Players Holding Auditions

Jamestown’s Winged Ox Players will hold auditions for its spring production of “A Doll’s House, Part 2”, written by Lucas Hnath, on Friday, Feb. 22, from 6 to 8 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 23, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St Luke’s Episcopal Church, 410 N. Main St., at the Fourth Street entrance. Actors will be asked to perform cold readings from the script. The play is a sequel to “A Doll’s House,” which was presented by the group in October 2018. The drama picks up 15 years later. The central character, Nora, returns home with a request for her husband and faces the ...

Sonically Authentic

The Probables have reorganized their sound — sort of. The group’s sound solidified when a permanent mandolin player, a permanent bassist, and a permanent drummer were added. The band’s music is still fresh, and sonically authentic. I was walking to meet the band members and as I ...

Write Now: Reading Is Essential For Musicians

Knowing how to read is essential. Being literate affords one to navigate life in a different way. It gives one power because one doesn’t have to ask someone else what is printed on a computer screen, magazine, newspaper, book or a flyer. Knowing how to read unlocks doors in another world of information one which previously may not have been able to access. The same holds true for learning how to read music. I’m not saying one has to learn loads of music theory although it would be an added bonus, but if ones how to read music for one’s chosen instrument, then one may have ...

Milwaukee Museum Features Thousands Of Bobbleheads

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A new museum in Milwaukee may well hold the largest collection of bobbleheads anyone has ever seen, displaying more than 6,500 figures of athletes, mascots, celebrities, animals, cartoon characters, politicians and more. The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum recently opened and was the brainchild of friends Phil Sklar and Brad Novak, who started collecting the figures 16 years ago. “We’ve put everything into this,” Sklar said. They decided on a museum and bobblehead-creating business about four years ago, after quitting their corporate finance ...

Loyalty

WESTPORT, Conn. (AP) — When the 1958 film adaptation of “The Old Man and the Sea” hit theaters, Ernest Hemingway happened to be in New York City to watch the World Series and invited his close friend A.E. Hotchner to go see the movie with him. “About 12 or 13 minutes after we sat ...

Write Now: Routine Helps Get Words On A Page

Like athletes, some writers may have a “pregrame” warmup or routine before actually writing. Do you have a writing routine? Are there things you do before committing words to the page? Do you have to browse books, magazines, and the Internet to convince yourself it is time to write? I sort of have a routine, but it’s not the same all of the time. In the past I tried writing in the cafe inside a Barnes and Noble Book Store. My “pregame” consisted of browsing for new books, old books, popular authors, and popular subjects. Finally I found a table in the cafe, placed my ...