Margaret Downing

Posted by RvpAdmin In Post-Journal By Margaret Downing REPORTER Local officials participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony in celebration of remodeling at Village Hall.

It starts with taxi dancers, those paid dance partners, in this case reminiscent of the 1930s — although it should be considered timeless says Brian Jucha who is getting ready to world premiere his fifth work with Catastrophic Theatre this month. Creator Jucha (he says calling him a playwright is...

In early returns, it appears Houston ISD's $4.4 billion school bond issue was heading for defeat, despite most voters' acknowledgment that something needs to be done about the deplorable conditions in some of the HISD schools. Two things at issue were the size of the bond — the largest in the...

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In Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol , Bob Cratchit works for Ebeneezer Scrooge, an unhappy, miserly man who takes out his dissatisfactions on others and primarily on the clerk who shares a cold office with him every day.

Dirty hallways and classrooms, fields left unmowed for so long that they become a danger to students in gym class practicing on them, custodians required to carry a punishing workload who are written up if they can't match the required pace. All these reports and more have been straggling in for weeks about many schools in the Houston ISD.

When playwright Christopher Durang got the idea for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike he wanted to act in it and wrote a role for himself, says Philip Lehl, co-founder of 4th Wall Theatre Co. What Durang was exploring was what his life would have been like if he...

Superintendent Mike Miles' statement following the defeat of the $4.4 billion board issue that parents had let their kids down by voting against the measure, was roundly rejected by one speaker after another at Thursday night's school board meeting Instead, the more than 130 speakers including state Rep. Jolanda Jones...

The good people of Cob County love their corn. They stay fairly isolated from the rest of the world, content with their crop. But there is a corn crisis; the corn is dying. And no one can figure out why. Among the inhabitants is a young woman, Maizy, who's engaged to...

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