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MARRIED LIFE GOING LONG, LONGER, KEEP GOING

May 10, 2023 by

Married life seems long when you think how long you’ve been married. Then someone else says they’ve been married longer and calls you newly weds. Newly weds after thirty-seven years? That’s it? I keep it more basic: Every day has a first date feel. You remember first dates?

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DO YOUR BEST WORK, OR DO BETTER WORK

April 1, 2022 by

Your best work is your calling card, the thing that best identifies you. But doing your best is a tricky proposition, especially if your best work was an accident. It happens online all the time. Some twitter user with a few hundred fans posts what they think is their usual tweet, but it strikes a […]

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LADY DAY PLAYS BOOMERPDX BAR AND GRILL

June 14, 2018 by

“Most men won’t go to live theater with their wives,” was an observation my wife shared. We were walking out of Portland Center Stage at the Armory on NW 11th by Powell’s Tuesday night when she said it. I was revved up after seeing LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR AND GRILL. “Did I ever thank […]

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PORTLAND PULSE = CRYSTAL BALLROOM + GERDING THEATER + OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY

February 21, 2018 by

  In one week Portland showed itself on a Sunday night, Tuesday night, and Wednesday afternoon. The show included the Crystal Ballroom on SW 14th and Burnside, Gerding Theater on NW 11th, and Oregon Historical Society on SW Park.   From Dan Auerbach, to Astoria Part 2, to Oregon’s birthday party, Portland lifted the curtain […]

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OREGON TRAIL RUTS ACROSS GERDING THEATER

November 22, 2016 by

 “The Oregon Trail” Cast and Creative Team The Oregon Trail By Bekah Brunstetter Directed by Rose Riordan The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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PIANO PLAYER POUNDS PORTLAND

May 1, 2016 by

The Lure Of The Piano Player. My Amazing Mother in Law, or AMIL, will be 90 and she’s active by anyone’s standards, not just for 90. But even she has an off day. One of her off days came the same time as her and my wife’s stage night out at Portland’s Gerding Theater. Would […]

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OUR OREGON TOWN TO YOURS

October 2, 2015 by

Not Much Happens In Our Town And That’s How We Like It. Our Oregon Town Likes It Too. Our Town opened in 1938, portraying the lives and events of a small town in New Hampshire from 1901-1913. The dates are important. Our Town shows life before WWII. Thornton Wilder had WWI and The Great Depression […]

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