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Cannabis is dangerous | John Robertson

We would not be sending out the right message that drugs are dangerous, and there is no way any responsible body should suggest otherwise. Some drugs are more dangerous than others. That's entirely what Nutt was saying. You are free to send out the ...

From JOHN ROBERTSON, Comment Is Free,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: White House,  Caroline Flint,  Charles Clarke,  Melanie Phillips

Theater review: Premiere!

Premiere! (presented by Rover Dramawerks at the Cox Building Playhouse in Plano) is one of the last plays written by Dale Wasserman, and it's easy to see how an aging playwright, when pondering his legacy, would turn his thoughts to the most remembered ...

From GINA ROBERTSON OF JOHN GARCIA'S THE COLUMN, Pegasus News,  2 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Hawkins, Inc.

Theater Review: Master Harold and the Boys

DESOTO Segregation in America and apartheid in South Africa may be gone, but the emotional impact remains strong in stories like Master Harold and the Boys, presented by the African American Repertory Theater in Desoto. Many of us have no memory of a ...

From GINA ROBERTSON OF JOHN GARCIA'S THE COLUMN, Pegasus News,  23 Oct 2009

Theater review: Running in the Red

The scene is the 1934 living room of an upscale New York City apartment, handsomely decorated and serene until the arrival of a cast of zany characters who bring mayhem to the stage at ONSTAGE in Bedford's production of (now playing at the ONSTAGE ...

From GINA ROBERTSON OF JOHN GARCIA'S THE COLUMN, Pegasus News,  19 Oct 2009
Related Topics: George Burns,  Columbia University,  Lucille Ball

Budget session resumes Monday

A special session of the Legislature to deal with a $650 million budget deficit has recessed for the day and will resume on Monday. A key Senate committee decided Sunday that tax increases will not be considered in the special session as a way to plug ...

From JOHN ROBERTSON, Albuquerque Journal,  18 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Bill Richardson

Richardson offers budget-balancing plan

Gov. Bill Richardson said Saturday his state budget-cutting plan to make up for an estimated $660 million deficit woulld not affect classroom teaching and avoids state worker furloughs and layoffs. Richardson's counterproposal to several legislative ...

From JOHN ROBERTSON, Albuquerque Journal,  17 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Bill Richardson,  American Federation of Teachers

Theater review: Godspell

It's the kind of thing you're either really into or you find it kind of creepy, like watching a cartoon about Charles Manson presented by those who saw him as a really funny, caring, inspirational man. Godspell, with its funky costumes, relentless ...

From GINA ROBERTSON OF JOHN GARCIA'S THE COLUMN, Pegasus News,  6 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Charles Manson,  Leo Sayer,  Michael Jackson

Theater review: Rabbit

On the second floor of a small Denton café called The Hydrant is an English pub populated by a group of friends who have come together to celebrate Bella's 29th birthday. You're invited. Don't miss it. Nina Raine's Rabbit, presented by Sundown ...

From GINA ROBERTSON OF JOHN GARCIA'S THE COLUMN, Pegasus News,  21 Sep 2009
Related Topics: David Thomas

Theater review: The Music Man

There's a reason The Music Man, with its silly songs and light comedy beat out the intense, complex musical drama West Side Story in 1958 for the Tony Award for best musical. With its simple story and basic characters, there are fewer ways to get it ...

From GINA ROBERTSON OF JOHN GARCIA'S THE COLUMN, Pegasus News,  16 Sep 2009

McLeish snubbed Ahern over pro-Catholic fears

SCOTLAND’S former first minister Henry McLeish pulled out of an engagement with Ireland’s premier in Scotland because his aides feared it would offend Protestants, according to documents released under freedom of information legislation. Bertie ...

From JASON ALLARDYCE AND JOHN ROBERTSON, Times Online,  29 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Henry McLeish,  Bertie Ahern,  Frank Roy,  Stewart Maxwell (politician)

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