A poet who captured the culture of Dust Bowl refugees, lived in the San Joaquin Valley, and most of us have never heard of her! Pick Up Your Name and Write: The Life of Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel is part of Betty Blanks’ crusade to change that lack of knowledge.
Kate Myles is a private detective. She used to be an LAPD detective, but an accident, and a painkiller addiction, put an end to her job, her marriage, and custody of her daughter—and that’s all before Alex Kenna’s second mystery, Burn This Night, begins.
It’s almost Thanksgiving, and that means...Bring on the Turkey! The Great Food Search traveled the countryside, even exploring a supermarket freezer section, to find turkey meals to review . . . and gobble-gobble-gobble!
Court is in session! All rise for Legally Blonde: The Musical!
Based on the 2001 Reese Witherspoon-starring film (which was based on Amanda Brown’s novel) this frothy 2007 musical is now in session in a Good Company Players’ production at Roger Rocka’s Dinner Theater through January 12.
Meg. Jo. Beth. Amy. Does that ring a bell?
If it does, get your tickets now for the lovingly-staged Good Company Players’ 2nd Space Theatre production of Little Women: A Victorian Christmas Card, playing through December 22. You won’t be sorry.
It’s October! Halloween! Autumn leaves! Pumpkin Spice!
OK . . . Not everyone likes Pumpkin Spice, but I’m a pumpkin partisan. I crave pumpkin treats, and The Great Food Search has gathered a garland of goodies!
This week we have 5 more cozy and historical mysteries all with a magical or spooky side making them perfect for Halloween reading-A Fatal Feast at Bramsford Manor: A Food and Spirits Mystery by Darci Hannah, Booked on Murder by Allison Brook, Furever After by Sofie Kelly, a Magical Cats Mystery, Six Stunning Sirens by Lynn Cahoon, and Death and the Visitors by Heather Redmond.
Before there was The Phantom of the Opera, before there was Cats, before there was Evita, before there was Jesus Christ Superstar, two young English men (Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice) created a 15-minute “Pop Cantata,” based on an Old Testament story, for a boys’ school to perform in 1968.
The Gods of Olympus! Titans! Monsters! Centaurs! Medusa! Furies! Hades! Minotaurs! Ares! Stolen Lightning! Charon! Satyrs!
It’s not a quiz for Greek Mythology 101. It’s The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, a lively journey through a modern-day world where ancient gods (and their part-mortal children) and monsters battle for survival, a River City Theatre Company production now playing at the Reedley Opera House through October 13.
In August, the Great Food Search brought you PIZZA! Pizzas from Clovis, Reedley, Sanger, and Shaver Lake. Was that enough for you?
