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At the center of much of the brutality in Cervantes’ play is Aldonza (Broadway veteran Heidi Meyer) — a working-class woman and sometimes prostitute — who is distrustful and resistant to accept true gentlemanly kindness bestowed upon her for the first time in her life, in this case by Don Quixote. He is a man on a quest to become a knight. Yes, he is a bit befuddled mentally — he envisions an inn to be a castle and goes into “battle” with a windmill he mistakes for a four-armed giant — but at heart Don Quixote is a truly kind man battling real demons of his own that he imagines are due to an evil magician called the Enchanter. (In reality, he is quite physically and mentally ill.) … [Read more...] about REVIEW: SDMT puts on a compelling ‘Man of La Mancha’

“A hat-making shop in the middle of nowhere,” says April Selman, who along with her husband believe hats to be an ultimate symbol of individuality and thus believe they should be custom-made. And they believe there to be no better place for their shop than Paonia, where individuality is paramount. … [Read more...] about Coexisting in fruit- and hippie-filled Paonia

But a lawyer for two insurers countered that Carman, a Vermont man under investigation for the deaths of his mother and grandfather, made suspicious modifications to the boat before heading out to sea in September 2016 with his mother, Linda, and later lied to investigators about where it sank. Despite a massive Coast Guard search, neither the boat nor Linda Carman’s remains have been recovered. … [Read more...] about Nathan Carman’s insurance trial comes to a close

I wish I could tell you that love will fix all of this, and that when your boyfriend gets to know you better, he'll decide he never wants to leave Canada. I can't say that, though. If he is "quite sure" he doesn't want to stay, and you are in "no way" going to move to his country, that's the answer. Dragging this out won't make it any easier. … [Read more...] about He doesn’t want to live in Canada

Nor does Joe Biden seem to have established any clear boundaries with his son. He reportedly didn’t want to address the matter at the time, and diffident aides were reluctant to push it. Finally, Biden’s campaign doesn’t seem to know how to deal with the scrutiny Trump has brought. Asked about the appearance of a conflict of interest on Friday, the candidate conjugated himself into high, finger-pointing dudgeon. … [Read more...] about Turbulence hits the Democrats’ top tier