Kiss Me Kate

If you enjoy good Broadway theatre, and especially if you enjoy Cole Porter, you only have one weekend left to see The Concord Players' production of "Kiss Me Kate" (www.concordplayers.org).
From the gorgeous costumes (with details like late-1940s seamed stockings) to songs like "Too Darn Hot" and "So In Love" (which I still can't get out of my head), it's a first-class production.

Congratulations to the actors, Director, and the entire crew, including Fearless Leader Tracy Wall, for a spectacular evening of theatre. Don't miss it next weekend!

Newspapers Are Alive And Well In Lexington - Chinese Newspapers.










On a recent Starbucks run in Lexington MA, I parked near a line of newspaper boxes along Massachusetts Avenue, the main drag through this posh suburban town west of Boston, where property values are sky-high.

In Boston and in most of its surrounding communities, newspaper boxes have pretty much fallen into disrepair or been removed as eyesores because of the steep and continuing decline in sales of print-edition newspapers. And in fact, the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald are both long gone from this location.

What's selling here is Chinese newspapers. In my short time in the parking lot, three different elderly Asian men walked up to the boxes and purchased newspapers, reflecting the dramatic increase in young Asian homeowners in Lexington - two-income couples with high tech jobs, with kids - who have brought Mom and Dad over to live with them. And their newspapers keep them in touch with the world they've left behind.


The Inaugural Speech President Obama Should Have Made

“I know you’re scared and angry. Many of you have lost your jobs, your homes, your hope. This was a disaster, but it was not a natural disaster. It was made by Wall Street gamblers who speculated with your lives and futures. It was made by conservative extremists who told us that if we just eliminated regulations and rewarded greed and recklessness, it would all work out. But it didn’t work out. And it didn’t work out 80 years ago, when the same people sold our grandparents the same bill of goods, with the same results. But we learned something from our grandparents about how to fix it, and we will draw on their wisdom. We will restore business confidence the old-fashioned way: by putting money back in the pockets of working Americans by putting them back to work, and by restoring integrity to our financial markets and demanding it of those who want to run them. I can’t promise that we won’t make mistakes along the way. But I can promise you that they will be honest mistakes, and that your government has your back again.” ~~NYT 8/7/11