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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Stones Are The First To Rise’ by David Giannini

Tthe tone in every poem, and in the closely fitting entire volume, comes like songs on the breezes of the various seasons, where we are blessed by a genuine and believable optimism once again.

AMPLIFICATIONS: Alison Larkin, Part 1

The party is meant to launch Alison Larkin’s two latest ventures in which the genders of the main characters were switched in these “freely adapted” versions of two of Dickens’ classics, “A Christmas Carol” and “Great Expectations.”

Overwatch: Confessions of an addict

Maybe you know what I’m talking about. Denial. It’s a very big deal. I told myself: it’s all about education, beginning with PBS and their nature shows and the science shows and then “Frontline” and the “PBS NewsHour.” Nothing wrong with learning, I told myself.

Bits & Bytes: Dickens to perform ‘A Christmas Carol’; ‘Beyond Plastics’ at Bennington; AOH seeks storytellers; Rep. Reed at Williams

Former Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator Judith Enck will launching the “Beyond Plastics” project, through which she will work with college students and community leaders around the country to reduce plastic pollution.

THEATRE REVIEW: Goodspeed Musicals’ ‘Oliver!’needs more pull, charm

Oliver asks for a little bit more in the opening scene, and I would ask the same of this production: a little bit more, please, of the pleasing aspects of the show and a little bit less of the darkest side

REVIEW: ‘Turn of the Scrooge,’ Pantoloons’ hilarious update of ‘A Christmas Carol’

Unlike other years where the jokes at the expense of politicians, local and national, are hooters, this season's barbs are blurred by everyone's sense of what is going on in the country.
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