It is my favorite play by Shakespeare. And like all plays by Shakespeare, it’s meant to be heard and not read. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is my favorite because it is a play within a play. In my opinion, the best word to describe how it was written is — clever. The play is ...

For Matteo Lane, comedy is a calling. “Comedy — it’s not an easy life,” the comedian said. “Comedy, for me at least, I wasn’t consciously planning on doing it. I fell into it realizing that’s what I was supposed to be doing.” Lane has other artistic endeavors as well. Lane ...

Imagine being a student in Orange County, California in the 1990s, surrounded by bands like No Doubt and Reel Big Fish. Imagine finding yourself in a place where all you want to do is write and design album covers as you sit in class. “I just kind of stopped paying attention in class around ...

There are some songs that when hear them on the radio on a warm summer day, you roll down the window, crank the volume, and sing at the top of your lungs. Better Than Ezra’s main songwriter and vocalist, Kevin Griffin, has contributed one of the band’s best-known songs, “Desperately ...

Michael Glabicki is no stranger to Jamestown. The founder of Rusted Root, a worldbeat band, traveled from Pittsburgh to perform frequently in the early 1990s at Joyce’s Keg Room. Saturday, Glabicki will again perform in Jamestown with his new band Uprooted as part of the inaugural Best Day ...

Have you started to read a novel, and found the narrator unreliable? You are not alone. I’ll let you in on a secret. It was intentional. An unreliable narrator is a technique sometimes used by authors to gain the attention of their readers. You are reading, but the information you ...