The Santa Rosa Press Democrat will be making changes to its daily comics page. Dear Readers – The Press Democrat is making some slight design improvements throughout our print edition, starting in April. One area we’re reviewing relates to our comics section that publishes Monday-Saturday. The paper asks readers to mark their favorite comics. Comic […]
… In other words, just as the popular concept of American democracy has been modified (some might say vulgarized) to include capitalism as a leading example of its primary function, so too has the practice of satire and political cartooning been amended to require amusement as its foremost intention, a sure sign that it can […]
In Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” a hard-drinking couple center their lives and their relationship around a cruel series of shared memories of extremely dubious truth. Any more would be a spoiler, and, if you’ve never seen Mike Nichols’ 1966 film of the play, you should. But don’t expect to laugh, because, in the […]