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Jim’s Picks: New Shasta College Play and Original Senn Jazz

The five actors in the cast of Shasta College’s new spring play “Circle Mirror Transformation” could each probably teach acting at the Redding junior college. That might be part of the point.

Shasta theater instructor Robert Soffian occasionally gathers a skilled community cast and directs a dynamic … Continue Reading

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Poets, Storytellers Share Craft at Spoken Word Night

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.
~Mark Strand, “Eating Poetry”

If poetry and story reveal truth, then much lay exposed one evening earlier this month at The Bohemian Art Loft in south Redding … Continue Reading

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Nuns at Sea — Full Speed Ahead

“Meshuggah-Nuns” Review Sometimes writers, like ships, hit the doldrums, languishing in familiar waters and not really making much headway. This was once the fate of the seemingly endless spin-offs of the original “Nunsense.”  But with this, the fifth iteration of… Continue Reading