Posts Tagged ‘jefferson’
Many-Tentacled
CAROLINE COLLIERWhen Jefferson Colby frontman Danny Mabe first picked up a guitar several years ago, he figured out how to play it almost overnight. By the time he had recruited his older brother Matt and childhood friend Jeff Moore to accompa...
Creative Math
StaticRemember I CAN Learn? The computerized math program that didn’t work was peddled by New Orleans entrepreneur and friend of former Fort Worth ISD superintendent Tom Tocco, who convinced trustees to sign contracts worth nea...
Jefferson Pepper
Listen UpInfluenced by Patti Smith, Nirvana, The Clash, Neil Young, John Prine, Johnny Cash, his factory-worker father, and coal-miner and farmer grandparents, Jefferson Pepper spent two years in his home in the Conewago Mountains (Sout...
Dying with Dignity
In Jubilee’s new production, the only gray areas are in the characters’ psyches.Stage
There’s no need for issuing “spoiler alerts” with a play titled A Lesson Before Dying.
Martyr and Man
Big TicketDr. Samuel Johnson once wrote that “when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrate his mind wonderfully.” The condemned character in Ernest Gaines’ A Lesson Before Dying needs a bit of assi...