By Joe Straw “You clean up nice.” –  Nicholas Burnside Somewhere, locked away in a dusty cedar chest, is a journal.  In it are the juicy ...

By Joe Straw Alfred Hitchcock popularized the term “MacGuffin”.   It is a plot device, which catches the audience attention and drives...

By Joe Straw   “I was astonished by its naiveté and its power…”* “After a year of unemployment and long after the credit cards...

By Joe Straw  She said it was provocative. “People just got up and left, scurrying for the exits and one person, not being able to hold her...

By Joe Straw  Riding on a bus in the late seventies going west on Hollywood Boulevard I came upon a group of African Americans in the ba...

By Joe Straw Theatricum Botanicum is a very relaxing place to see theatre.  The people are friendly and one has the feeling of being one w...

By Joe Straw Norman P. Dixon has to be the luckiest man alive and he may not even know it. Norman grew up Mormon in Utah, blessed with...