What a day! ! ! I do not ever remember a day in which we found ourselves under a severe thunderstorm warning three separate times in the same day - and come to think of it, one of those warnings was actually a tornado warning. One of the weirdest things about the day was that
This was the scene in Kenosha yesterday afternoon, as workers piece by piece dismantled the old WGTD radio tower, which had been there since 1975. (More photos are on elsewhere on my website, on the WGTD page.) Mother Nature apparently was attached to this old thing, because she threw all kinds of disagreeable weather our
And once again, ladies and gentlemen, Kristen Barnes! This time, though, I’m not talking about her senior voice recital but rather her presence as guinea pig voice student. We are in the midst of hiring at least one additional part time voice teacher at Carthage- and we hosted a couple of applicants earlier this week
Sunday afternoon between Tremper’s graduation ceremony (the choir sang one of my compositions) and a Side by Side by Sondheim rehearsal at my house I squeezed in a quick trip to the north side of Racine to hear as much as I could of Kristen Barnes’ senior voice recital. I’m not sure just why Kristen
It’s graduation season and one of the weirdest things about this is that if life had played out a bit differently for Kathy and me, we might very well be busy blowing up balloons and making little diploma-shaped party favors for Meredith Marie Berg’s or Bryan Paul Berg’s high school graduation. . . (and frantically
The Racine Theater Guild’s production of Frank Loesser’s “Guys and Dolls” (one of the best productions with which I’ve been associated over the years) is running through next weekend, but there is no time for resting-on-one’s-laurels. There’s a new show to mount and yesterday was the first cast meeting for our summer production, “Side by
