Lakewood Playhouse was founded in 1938. They currently have a 180-seat theatre at the Lakewood Towne Center. Their building turned 50 Years Old in 2016. I performed in a one-act play at the old location during the summer of 1963. Over the years Peg and I have seen numerous productions at Lakewood Playhouse. The Managing […]
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Letter: ‘We got the best weed!’
Hip, Hip, Hooray for Hemp! and other such hypocritical juvenile-isms – as the one headlined here and making headlines nationally what with Washington Gov. Inslee’s teevee pot pronouncement last week on the Bill Maher show – may soon high-light the high-way to lure passers-by to get their highs here instead of elsewhere.
Home from Home: May Day
Submitted by Susanne Bacon If on April 30 you find any of your German co-workers or friends a little restless, it might be because it’s that time of the year. In Germany, they are celebrating Walpurgisnacht (pronounce vul-‘poor-geese-nuht) and May Day big time … and here there is none of this. Unless you are living […]
Westside Story – You Are Invited To Dinner
You are invited to dinner. Greater Lakes Mental Healthcare (GLMH) is hosting their annual dinner and community fund raising program.
Westside Story – A Blurry Thought
I am so confused by the pin I found lying on the carpet at the Lakewood DMV.
Letter: Hell’s Angels to crash Lakewood’s weed party?
A just-for-fun-stirring-the-pot-hey-it-could-happen-what-if. April 20, at 4:20 P.M. no less, counterculture cannabis consumers across the country – encircling this celestial planet for that matter – plan to conduct cannabis cough-ins (not to be confused with coffins, necessarily) celebrating this internationally recognized day on the calendar, code ‘420’, for pot legalization.
Home from Home: National and Nature Parks
Submitted by Susanne Bacon As a teenager I laughed when I read in a book by Paul Watzlawick that Americans visiting my mother country allegedly ask whether the Black Forest was open on Sundays. It never occurred to me that it could not be open. Or that people might expect to have to pay an […]
Westside Story – Upside Down World
My photo below reminds me that with so much going on in the news and around the world, at times, it seems our planet has tipped upside down.
Westside Story – Accidental Credit Card Fraud
What you are about to read is a true story. It happened right here on the West Side. Thus, another Westside Story. The names have not been changed to protect the innocent, because no one is innocent.