I often have more than one of my Star Ledger entertainment stories run on the same day as editors like them to go out on the weekends. This week is no exception. I have three stories that were posted online…
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Raising awareness of POTS
Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is more common in the US than MS and yet it’s not a well-known disorder. Hoping this story I wrote for “The Philadelphia Inquirer” changes that. Here’s the top of the story: It’s easy to…
Global Guides at the Penn Museum
Penn Museum has always been fascinating and cool and it just got cooler with its new Global Guides program, which has natives of Iraq and Syria serving as guides. I wrote about it for the Associated Press. Read the story…
Women’s Theater Company celebrates its 30th anniversary
I was surprised to see nj.com hadn’t done any features on Women’s Theater Company so I jumped at the chance to do so. Here’s the lede: More than a quarter century ago, Barbara Krajkowski was working with a professional theater…
Moliere’s “Tartuffe”
Vivian Reed was a lovely interview. She is one of the stars of this stage production of “Tartuffe. Here’s the lede: Broadway actor/singer Vivian Reed often chooses projects based on the part she’ll play, both the roles that suit her…
Baseball takes the stage
Hoboken brags it’s the birthplace of baseball and Frank Sinatra. I’m a fan of both, and will one day attend this annual event featuring 7 10-minute plays with a baseball theme. The lede, in which I casually drop the word…
At the crossroads with Crossroads
Here’s my recent story about Crossroads Theatre. The lede: Keeping a regional theater afloat is challenging in the best of times. Doing so for four decades — through economic downturns, and social and cultural changes –is even more difficult. Now,…
From “Brain and Life,” finding a balance in knowing how much care to give
From “Brain and Life,” a story for caregivers walking the balance between helping too much and not helping enough.
Three cool/Kool dudes
No one knows how a story will begin before they actually write it. I mean, anyone could go with the straight lede — “THISPERSON will perform at THISPLACE on THISDATE,” but most of us try a bit harder than that.…
Newark’s First Lady of Jazz, a genius and a goddess walk into a bar…
OK, I really don’t know how that joke ends, but if anyone has any ideas, let me know. The first lady in question is Dorthaan Kirk. The genius is MacArthur Genius grant awardee/Pulitzer Prize winning composer Julia Wolfe and the…