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Twisted Plot Twists

Stories on Stage returns with more forgotten lore.

By Laura Bond, Adam Cayton-Holland, Susan Froyd and Ernie Tucker
Oct 27, 2005

SUN, 10/30 Walking the line between sanity and madness -- or pretending to do so -- helps give Halloween its juice. Stripping that path down to classic literature heightens the experience in ways that slasher movies can't, because written words conjure up images unique to each individual's cranium. The scare...
I Said, Line!

No scripts necessary with Drew Carey and the gang.

By Adam Cayton-Holland and Ernie Tucker
Oct 27, 2005

FRI, 10/28 Quick, somebody in the audience give me a profession. Don't ask, just do it, because I'm going to act like I'm somebody in that profession, and then my partner, who will come on stage later, will have to guess what I'm doing. What do you mean, why? Because...
Czechmate

Druhá Tráva won't be a pawn in the bluegrass game.

By John La Briola, Jason Heller, Michael Roberts and Ernie Tucker
Oct 6, 2005

SUN, 10/9 Taking cues from the legendary Earl Scruggs, the Czech Republic's Druhá Tráva (which means "Second Grass") has transformed a quintessentially American idiom into a unique synthesis of jazz, pop, folk, classical and Eastern European music. "Bluegrass has a long tradition in our country and became extremely popular in...
Bark If You Love Jesus

The annual Blessing of the Animals celebrates paws and claws.

By John La Briola, Patricia Calhoun, Amy Haimerl and Ernie Tucker
Sep 29, 2005

SUN, 10/2 At 4 p.m. today, after workers remove the pew cushions and burn some incense, the annual St. Francis Day Blessing of the Animals will commence at St. John's Cathedral, 1350 Washington Street. "There's always a certain degree of joyful chaos because we get a wide variety of animals...
Not Jason and the Argonauts

Clash of the Titans brawls into Denver.

By Adam Cayton-Holland, Susan Froyd and Ernie Tucker
Sep 22, 2005

SAT, 9/24 There's a fine art to selecting your fighting name. It's got to be something aggressive, but a potential pugilist can't fly off half-cocked and just hurl out a bunch of words. For instance, the novice brawler can't pick something like Tom "Once Ripped Out a Guy's Eyeball in...

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