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Starting Over, Comprende?
Beginning a New Life in Mexico

Friday, May 18th, 2012
by Charlene Giannetti on Reading Around

Here’s the pitch: Two technology executives, living the good life in Portland, Oregon, their home with $1 million views of Mt. Hood and Mt. St.

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Fire and Ice—Hindenburg and Titanic
At the National Postal Museum

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. Fire and Ice, Robert Frost What is it about the two disasters—the Hindenburg

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The Big Apple Circus Presents Dream Big

Thursday, November 10th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around

It would’ve been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant. Samuel West The six

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Coming Home

Sunday, July 31st, 2011
by Stacey Walz on Living Around

It is the afternoon of June 29, 2011 and I’m standing in my vacant German flat. The movers left just minutes earlier with our countless

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Voca People—Talented Aliens Sing Earthly Songs

Monday, July 4th, 2011
by MJ Hanley-Goff on Playing Around

Billed as Blue Man Group meets Glee!, the off-Broadway show Voca People is actually B-52’s meet the Coneheads. Energetic musicians meets wise-guy aliens. Huh, you

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Lessons Learned from a Year in Europe

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
by Stacey Walz on Living Around

It’s been nearly nine months since my family relocated to Germany for my husband’s one-year job assignment. In these nine months, we have traveled to

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NEXT – The Survival of Holes & Cattle

Friday, February 11th, 2011
by Abby Cañeda on Playing Around

When I first heard of a play being promoted as a “Dark & Dirty WWII Prostitute Drama,” admittedly, I was intrigued. Usually, when I think

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The Emperor’s Private Paradise:
Treasures From The Forbidden City

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Playing Around

Plum Blossom Panel When I visited The Forbidden City, over 20 years ago, large sections of the grounds were out-of-bounds because, due to civil war

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