Posts tagged "September"

Published in KPBS On Air Magazine September 2005 Can an acclaimed, high-profile journalist subsist on minimum wage? Social critic Barbara Ehrenreich was determined to find out. She spent a year moving among three states (Florida, Maine and Minnesota), taking low-wage jobs such as waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, Wal-Mart salesperson and nursing home aide. The result was her knockout, life-changing, consciousness-raising, best-selling 2001 book, “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.” In 2002, Joan Holden, Read More →

Published in KPBS On Air Magazine September 2004 Two fathers, two sons, two worlds. "The Chosen," the 1967 debut novel of Chaim Potok, is about the nature of choice; what's chosen in terms of a path, a faith, a friendship. The best-seller was the first book from a major publisher to portray Orthodox Judaism in the United States . It was Read More →

Published in KPBS On Air Magazine September 2003 You've heard The Trolley Song. But have you seen The Trolley Dances? This is the fifth year of the acclaimed and unique moveable dance-feast presented by Jean Isaacs' San Diego Dance Theater. The 2000 installment won a local dance Tommy Award for "Special Achievement in Artistry." Isaacs, who's been dancing and choreographing in Read More →

Published in KPBS On Air Magazine September 2002 You can do it by Moonlight or Starlight. See a regional premiere musical, that is. Two of our largest outdoor summer venues have scored major coups, in acquiring the first local presentations of highly anticipated musicals adapted from literary classics. "Ragtime" will make its regional premiere at Moonlight Amphitheatre in Vista (August 28-September 8); "Jekyll Read More →

Published in KPBS On Air Magazine September 2001 Size 12 1/2. Big shoes to fill. You'd have to do some pretty fancy footwork to walk the walk (or, more aptly, dance the dance) of Savion Glover, the 28 year-old wunderkind of tap. He's been dubbed 'the tap ambassador of his generation,' 'the man who saved tap dancing,' 'the Michael Jordan of tap.' The New York Times Read More →

Published in KPBS On Air Magazine September 2000 At a website called The Austin Pendleton Worship Page, there's a quote from Harlan Ellison's 1973 review of "The Thief Who Came to Dinner": "Oh my. Austin Pendleton ought to be on exhibit in the Smithsonian. He is a national treasure. People ought to come pouring out of the studios and bury him in money to make film after Read More →