Santa Maria Civic Theatre is haunted with hilarity by its latest production, Blithe Spirit, a comedy in three acts by the celebrated Noel Coward. The show is about a man haunted by the ghost of his first wife—much to the chagrin of his second wife. Alan H. Foster directs this charming production of a community […]
BRENT M. PARKER
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You’ll love Opal
Santa Maria Civic Theatre offers laughs amid a touching back story
There’s something for everybody to love in Santa Maria Civic Theatre’s latest production, the comedy Everybody Loves Opal, by John Patrick. The title character (Clare Terrill) is an old eccentric who collects and sells junk. The action takes place in her dilapidated, isolated, old house, which sits next to a garbage dump. The attention to […]
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Gone silent
Warner Music Group cracks down on YouTube videos with copyrighted music
On Jan. 29, I received an e-mail notification from YouTube—that ubiquitous video-sharing website—informing me the sound had been disabled on a video I’d posted there. The bit of Internet in question was a souped-up slideshow of photos taken on a trip to Disneyland with friends, synched to the song “Your Imagination” by former Beach Boy […]