topic: By Aurelio Sanchez

Sunday, May 11, 2008 Comics Bring Native American Stories To Life By Aurelio Sanchez Journal Staff Writer       Cartoons and superheroes have long been a part of Native American storytelling. A pictograph from the 13th century shows an image of a red, white and blue shield-carrying warrior.        ...
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Friday, May 09, 2008 'Quilts' Project Helps Kids Find Connections By Aurelio Sanchez Journal Staff Writer       Quilts serve to show children the fabric of not only their rich and often lugubrious past, but also of the potential and promise of their future, a Newchild Productions representative ...
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Sunday, May 04, 2008 Painter Finds 'Magic' in Realism By Aurelio Sanchez Journal Staff Writer       As a Rhode Island history professor, Robert Gutchen often took students to England, where they often walked past a watercolor gallery.        “Every time I walked past that gallery, I'd often ...
full story 05/03/08

Sunday, May 04, 2008 Seeking Revenge and Closure in 'Death' By Aurelio Sanchez Journal Staff Writer       Human fallibility is a fact of life in a life that is full of uncertainty.        So what happens when you are certain that the voice you hear belongs to a man who tortured and raped you ...
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Friday, May 02, 2008 Shakers Look for Their Utopia in 'Heaven' Play By Aurelio Sanchez / Journal Staff Writer       There were two things that drew Georgia Athearn to directing Arlene Hutton's “As It Is in Heaven” at the Desert Rose Playhouse.        The first was that Athearn is always ...
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Friday, May 02, 2008 'Wake Up' Offers A Jolt of Cold, Hard Reality By Aurelio Sanchez / Journal Staff Writer       David Garver finds America's obsession with celebrity “interesting and extremely annoying.”        Getting our latest fix of Britney's baby blues or seeing how our own ...
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Sunday, April 27, 2008 Dance Chronicles Holocaust's Long-term Impact By Aurelio Sanchez / Journal Staff Writer       This poetry passage from a Holocaust victim is read aloud while dancers from the Keshet Dance Company create a path with stones, representing a Jewish custom of leaving stones or ...
full story 04/26/08

Friday, April 25, 2008 A Funny Thing Happened ... By Aurelio Sanchez / Journal Staff Writer       James Junes remembers being so nervous at his first comedy show that he walked out and called his wife, telling her maybe he wasn't cut out for making people laugh.        She sent him back, saying ...
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Sunday, April 20, 2008 Play Answers Question of Bard’S Worth By Aurelio Sanchez/ Journal Staff Writer       What possible relevance does Shakespeare have to today’s kids in today’s world?     “That is the question,” and the answer is that as long as people are interested in reading and knowing about ...
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Sunday, April 20, 2008 ‘Sundown’ Puts Doc Holliday’S Story To Music By Aurelio Sanchez/ Journal Staff Writer       Cy Hoffman by pure luck chanced into finding a CD of western music that he loved, leading him to find a play he loved even more.     “Sundown” is very different from what you might find ...
full story 04/20/08