317 stories by "Don Hall"
A Nebraska girl born with no arms and legs has blamed unfair scoring after she failed to make her school's cheerleading squad three years in a row. Julia Sullivan, 16, has complained to…
I don't know......somehow I am now compelled... ...to either go buy shit from Walmart... ...or pray that fucking clown never comes to my house...
Art Nouveau Superheroes and SupervillainsSOURCESOURCE****TV KILLS! Move Over Tobacco!!Dear fellow television addicts viewers: We've received awful news. Researchers in Austra…
From 2001 to 2007, the economy endured "the slowest rate of jobs growth on record since World War II, and just one-fifth the pace of the 1990s."SOURCE Dear Dumbasses,At …
...that seeing friends get married fills me with conflicting emotions - like watching someone try on a Mesh Shirt. It didn't fit me so well but I sure hope they look good in it......th…
Sitting on the greenway just on the edge of the North End of Boston at the end of my ten day vacation from the World I Know, I'm overcome with a sense of both calm and dread. Watching child…
Advocacy is a political process by an individual or group which normally aims to influence public-policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and …
****And No One Said This Was a Steaming Bunch of Horseshit?The first time she was raped, school officials told her she was lying. They even demanded she write and hand-deliver an apology let…
Waking up at 5AM and deciding to go back to sleep.Setting the day's agenda based on the needs of the day rather than the calendar and a set of To Do Items.Smelling the faint mixture of sea s…
…that, among the best parts of vacationing, which includes some quiet, some new experiences, some excellent dining, is the absence of enslavement to the clock.…that, if you're paying att…
When I decided to move to Portage Park earlier this past Spring, I realized that I had to too much shit to take with me. Sure, there were the big things (a queen-sized bed my mother bought f…
Our man in Brooklyn, Matthew Freeman, suggests that things are just slow in the bloggity blog world so he throws out some provocative questions for us to blog about. Given that I am current…
This is important, gang. Lives hang in the balance.Read below and decide what you would do if it was yourself or a family member - convicted of crimes, incarcerated, and then - like Ri…
Check it out!The Art of the Political: Can the Stage Be More Than Entertainment? Sunday, October 9 at 7:00pm Victory Gardens Biograph Theater (2433 N. Lincoln Avenue)Presenting a showca…
Looking for a Prize to Get Me??I want one of these!!****Hmmmm...Who is Paying for Rural America? I Am!!!SOME American states receive more in federal spending than they pay in federal t…
The first time I began to question the Christian view of the world came when I was eight or nine years old. My stepfather's mother was big on VBS - Vacation Bible School - and, while m…
...that my grandfather told me once that his experience during the Great Depression was that people in his economic straits helped each other out during the grim periods. Open your eye…
This weekend, I was asked to present a discussion at the Theatre Wit/League of Chicago Theatres Chicago Theatre Anti-Conference.Here are some excerpts of my presentation.The discussion was p…
"I can see both sides of the issue.""The Democrats are just as bad as the Republicans.""I'm undecided."What a load of weak ass shit.American politics are defined by the extremes and decided …
H/T to Cynthia CastiglioniFollowing up a bit on the "Who Needs a Theater" post (and discussion tomorrow at Theatre Wit), the idea that art has to be housed in a specific traditional setting …
****I Couldn't Say This Better If I Tried...So we're all in on austerity and drowning the government in the bathtub, and the public has gotten the message, even if it is bullshit. I'm told b…
From 1992 until 2000, I produced theater exclusively by renting venues. WNEP started off in the back room of the Beaumont Bar and, while no rent was paid directly, it was a weekly negotiati…
...that few things in life can do better than a grilled meal with your honey on a Sunday night after mowing the lawn in the blistering heat, followed by a quick 40 minute dip in the pool and…
Subject: WILL YOU SELL YOUR HOUSE AFTER 2012 National Association of REALTORS is all over this and working to get it repealed, before it takes effect. But, I am very pleased we aren't t…
