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	August 2010

Perceptions
Michael Bettencourt
When Does Someone Get Old
Bette Davis was right about growing old: it's not for sissies. That goes as much for the caretakers as it does for citizens turning daily senior before our eyes.

Myths
Arthur Meiselman
Through the Myth-Making Glass Lightly
There is a nearly an uncountable number of urban-rural myths regarding people in foreign lands—places other than where you live.
Here are a few:

Theatre
Nathan Thomas
The Game of Perception
Two tragedies as unalike as tragedies can be. Hamlet and the ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. One an old play about personal ambition and death and revenge, the other a modern experience of personal ambition and death and revenge.

Media
Les Marcott
The Long Goodbye
Larry King won't be retiring until "sometime" in the fall; Oprah won't be leaving her show until September of next year. Call it what you will but I call it the long goodbye.

Theatre
Claudine Jones
Liked But Not Well Liked
I will say, though, that the performance of the play was as close to a complete waste of my time, without being a total train wreck, as I have seen in quite a while.


	FILM (Reviews) The Girls Who Fought for Their Lives The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ~ Winter's Bone Miles David Moore

	OPERA The All-American Ring is shaping up at San Francisco Opera Renate Stendhal

	ARTS OF THAILAND Vihara Laai Kham A revered treasure of temple architecture and paintings Janine Yasovant คลิกเพื่ออ่านบทความนี้ เป็นภาษาไทย


	CHAMBER OPERA The Steiny Road to Operadom The Turn of the Screw While 'Screw' is a horror story and a psychological conundrum, it is also a case of two deaths not satisfactorily accounted for. Karren Alenier

POETRY Life Among the Heffalumps My Art—Your Self Why do I get so emotional over a comic strip panel? Partly, because though well past my teenage years, I still identify with this angst-filled adolescent Kathi Wolfe

		FICTION The serialization of a new novel by Martin Challis Chapter Fourteen - Hunter They'd received a call 20 minutes earlier from a neighbour who'd heard screaming. Two detectives, Crowle and Earnshaw entered the kitchen, guns ready.


	MEDIA La Femme La Mujer La Donna A Not-So-Braveheart Revisited Mel Gibson has made headlines once again this summer from a very public and very dirty custody battle with his ex-girlfriend. Lia Beachy


	COMICS Old Hippy One Big Happy Family Elliot Feldman




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