BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO ** out of **** RICHARD RODGERS THEATRE Clearly, playwright Rajiv Jospeh is a talent. Earlier this season, his show Gruesome Playground Injuries played Off Broadway. While not emotionally involving, it was cleverly constructed and inspired top work from everyone involved. His new drama Bengal Tiger At The Baghdad Zoo [...]
In front of the White House last Thursday, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and Pentagon Papers whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg, were among the 131 people arrested while protesting America’s involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Hedges, a veteran war correspondent, recalls what he was thinking just moments before being arrested: I was transported in that short [...]
Tom Matlack sits down with Pat Tillman’s widow, Marie, to discuss the Pat Tillman Foundation. Inspired by the life and legacy of Pat Tillman–a professional athlete, military hero and a kind and good man–The Pat Tillman Foundation is a national leader in providing resources and educational support to veterans, active service members and their dependents. In the [...]
Washington Post columnist and Pulitzer prize winner Charles Krauthammer has a new column out today in which he provides readers with his presumably expert take on the matter of Obama’s decision to increase U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan by 30,000 soldiers while also having announced a force reduction to begin a year and a half [...]
Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta will become the first living Medal of Honor recipient since the Vietnam War. He will be one of four, who have fought in Afghanistan, to receive the nation’s highest honor. While President Obama will decorate a living soldier with the medal, Congress is considering a resolution to declare November U.S. Military [...]
Nadia McCaffrey, who lives in Tracy, CA, knows the pain that most parents can only think of in fleeting terms. The magnitude of the loss is too great to even contemplate. Six years ago, Sergeant Patrick McCaffrey, Nadia’s only child, was killed in Iraq. Tracy also possesses the highest per capita number of Iraq and [...]
On Tuesday, September 7, HBO airs the documentary My Trip to Al-Qaeda by Alex Gibney and Lawrence Wright. It should not be missed. Wright’s most recent book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, won the ’07 Pulitzer for General Non-Fiction. It’s the best book yet about the complexities surrounding that tragedy, and [...]
On Tuesday, September 7, HBO airs the documentary My Trip to Al-Qaeda by Alex Gibney and Lawrence Wright. It should not be missed. Wright’s most recent book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, won the ’07 Pulitzer for General Non-Fiction. It’s the best book yet about the complexities surrounding that tragedy, and [...]
