The Storyologist

When you spend good money and time on a Broadway show, it can be a bit disappointing to arrive at the theater only to find a little white slip of paper tucked into your playbill that indicates one of the leads is out andRead More

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) sounds like the kind of show an overwhelmed high school student might attend to cover their bases for English class without actually doing the reading. Any such students in the audience of Southwest Shakespeare's production (running at theRead More

In about six months, the world will tune in to the 2018 Winter Olympics to watch the best of the best compete in 102 events in 15 sports. But before any athletes can get to Pyeongchang, they have to get through their regular seasonsRead More

It's here! The Nordstrom Anniversary Sale, bane and blessing to shoppers everywhere, kicked off yesterday. This time of year, the style blogosphere is chock-full of reviews of the Nordstrom sale. It's easy to get overwhelmed or to feel that it's an elite thing (theRead More

Baking from scratch can be intimidating for many. There's a perception that it's all about precise measurements and time-consuming waits. And while that's true of some recipes, there are also a lot of hacks that can make your baking easier, tastier, and even healthier!Read More

The very nature of musical theatre makes it challenging to fully show the world from a character's perspective. Unlike prose, there are limits to limited perspectives: theatre tends to show events precisely as they happen (and then characters sing their feelings about those events).Read More

It is a truth universally acknowledged that there are more Pride and Prejudice adaptations than there need to be. I say this with the utmost affection for the story (and several vintage copies of it sitting on my bookshelf): although it is perhaps the perfectRead More