The Mystery & Adventure Agency
Live, Interactive Mysteries and Whodunnits in Ithaca
I’ve said it before. I think I’ve written it here before. I think it goes without saying: I am a reader. I’ve always been a reader and only partially resented the summer book reports my mother made my brother and I do as kids. This, [...]
It’s a Wonderful Radio Life, Hangar Theatre
The Classic Story Comes to Life in Ithaca…as a Radio Play
Before I could write, before I knew of “radio shows,” I created characters out of the stuffed animals in my bedroom. I commissioned pans, pots, and utensils from the kitchen, baby food jars filled with screws and bolts and [...]
Cinderella at The State Theatre in Ithaca
Running to Places Performing Cinderella at The State Theatre
Just yesterday a friend of mine used the phrase “If I had a nickel for every time…” and I, because I love language, started wondering about the derivation of this particular idiom. Where did it come from? Is it purely an [...]
Things to Do in Ithaca in Fall 2011
We’re fast approaching the final days of August, the back to school sales (I do so envy the aisles of school supplies and lament that I’ve no need for them), the bonfires where we try to eke out every last fire for the summer, every last s’more, and [...]
Rounding Third at Hangar Theatre, Ithaca
The 3rd baseman and shortstop are fighting. It has something to do with whose cleats, which they refer to as baseball shoes, are tied properly. It quickly devolves into dueling “That’s what my Dad said” and “Well my Dad said it’s this way.” I have seen both of their fathers, [...]
I had veggie hot dogs and sauerkraut for dinner three times last week. 6 links. 1 human. 3 nights. There were not, as you may wonder, any gap nights; three nights…in a row. In my defense, I hadn’t had them in ages and a friend watered the seed of suggestion and craving I was already [...]
Now’s the time (or here’s the space) when (and where) I’d normally share some story from my life, hopefully funny, maybe interesting, and then tie it into an upcoming event, but frankly there is just too much good stuff coming up and I want you to know about all of it. Sometimes I worry (I’m [...]
I am thinking of the Haozi as I am driving up a Michigan highway, just north of the Indiana border, at 72 mph, at 11pm, in November, with my driver’s side window all the way down. I am thinking of the Haozi battling the raging Yangtze River, and their story as I heard in on [...]
Just last week, the building where I work began to deck the halls, not with boughs of holly, but with long strands of faux pine garland, gathered into a large fake velvet bow every ten feet or so. A wreath has been hung over the main door. The faux greenery will, no doubt, be joined [...]
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