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Theater review: The Dinosaurs (★★★★) at Playwrights Horizons First-rate actors congregate Jacob Perkins's look at 12-step healing

REVIEW: Kathleen Chalfant and Elizabeth Marvel lead a first-rate cast in Jacob Perkins's look at alcoholism and healing, The Dinosaurs (★★★★) www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...

R.I.P., Harry Haun. What a kind fellow, good reporter, and lovely writer.

DO IT

AG Bondi demands access to Minnesota voter rolls after fatal Border Patrol shooting Her demand came as Minneapolis was reeling from a second fatal shooting by a federal agent this month.

🚨BREAKING: Hours after federal immigration officers shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, Pam Bondi seized upon the incident to demand access to voter rolls, directly tying the Trump administration’s quest for voters’ unredacted personal data to its aggressive immigration raids across the state.

Opinion | One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can.

One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it.

We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.

RIP, John Cunningham.

Opinion | I’m the Mayor of Minneapolis. Trump Is Lying to You.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...

BREAKING:

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate advances a war powers resolution to limit further attacks on Venezuela and sets up a vote for final passage.

Anyone withnessing the chaos and barbarism of the untrained thugs masquerading as law officers for the last nine months understands ICE is raw human trash gathered into a lawless street gang. That's all. This isn't policing. It isn't legal enforcement. It's just incompetent, undisciplined terror.

I just left the Venezuela briefing.

It's worse than you thought.

Oil company executives seem to know more about Trump's secret plan to "run" Venezuela than the American people.

We need public Senate hearings NOW.

Do I dare to skeet "impeach"?

I didn’t know that! I loved “Writing Home.”

It is awfully good.

The Rimers of Eldritch

I lived in San Antonio until I was six and I loved Big Red.

I would malinger to skip school for a few days twice annually to watch reruns of “The Dick Van Dyke Show”—a great education. Happy birthday, Dick Van Dyke!

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

That was in the Upper Effendi…

Did I ever tell you about the time I performed an appendectomy with a rusty sardine can?

Game changer.

After seeing “Le Cercle Rouge” on the big screen again for the umpteenth time, lowkey obsessed with Bourvil…

That was Philip Glass in the next chair at the barber shop.

When, in rehearsal for “The Coast of Utopia,” Jack O’Brien asked what he desired most from those performing his work, Tom Stoppard said, “Clarity of utterance.” He went rigid with discomfort when I embraced him on opening night of the 1st part, but offered himself for a hug by the 3rd. R.I.P., Tom.

[Cookie Monster] : "No, no, no, boss, it ok, you sit down, me write headline!"

Immediate follow.

I beg to differ. Culturally, I am a boomer, Bruce, informed by the tastes of my older siblings. While our peers listened to ELO and Led Zeppelin and Lynyrd Skynyrd or whoever, I was listening to The Beatles and Leon Russell.

Which of the classic Tetris pieces has the best mouthfeel?

A colleague is doubting my boomer cred, because I was born in 1963. He says, "You're on the cusp." But my parents were *both* WWII veterans. I'm a late boomer, but a boomer, dammit. I remember reading Douglas Coupland's "Generation X" when I was 29 and thinking the characters all seemed young.