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Stateside With Rosalea: Tragedy At Ford's Theatre
Monday, 27 August 2001, 9:32 am | Rosalea Barker
A couple of Saturdays ago, ABC-D (for Disney, the parent company) aired what seemed to be George II's version of a royal command performance. Ford's is, of course, the theatre from which Abraham Lincoln was carried unconscious after an actor shot him ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: 20/20 Vision
Monday, 20 August 2001, 9:56 am | Rosalea Barker
When Mark Twain wrote that the coldest winter he ever spent was summer in San Francisco he wasn't joking. While the continent east of the Oakland hills fries in triple digit temperatures, SF and parts of the Bay have a low cloud cover that rolls in off the ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea Extra: Mini Cooper's CV
Friday, 17 August 2001, 11:51 am | Rosalea Barker
Pics and Specs of Mini Cooper at BMW computer science student recruitment drive at UC Berkeley last month. The specs are taken from the 'resume' in the car's window, so are US-speak and dollars. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Botti, Benson and Godinez
Monday, 13 August 2001, 8:47 am | Rosalea Barker
Friday night I set out for a dinner in Oakland - the city that has the temerity to take out full-page ads in the San Francisco papers saying things like: June 21 Beginning of summer in Oakland, Beginning of winter in San Francisco. The campaign is being ... More >>
Stateside: Centipede Shoes On The Road
Monday, 6 August 2001, 8:24 am | Rosalea Barker
When the church bells ring out over England to celebrate royal birthdays, weddings, funerals do you ever wonder how bellringers get to practise without alienating their neighbours? We're not talking here about a garage band practice, after all! More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Job's Lot
Monday, 30 July 2001, 10:37 am | Rosalea Barker
John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States, is a bit of worry. He was on the telly this morning in the 'Hour of Power', speaking in the Crystal Cathedral here in California. There's a statue of Job on the campus of the Crystal Cathedral, ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: What's In A Name?
Monday, 23 July 2001, 9:26 am | Rosalea Barker
Even as George II was disentangling his thumb from the handle of one of Elizabeth II's teacups, news of his munificence towards certain impoverished nations was being delivered to my mailbox. "Dear Taxpayer:" the letter said, "We are ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Web Van Winkle
Monday, 16 July 2001, 9:56 am | Rosalea Barker
Last Sunday, the local Fox TV station led its 11 p.m. bulletin with live pictures of shadowy figures carrying plastic bags full of personal belongings from a shadowy building in the distance. No, it wasn't Washington and they weren't the police; it ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea : Freedom's Chimes Flashing
Monday, 9 July 2001, 11:00 am | Rosalea Barker
Dabbing at my patriotic eyes as the marching bands play and the fireworks flash, I notice that the Kleenex I'm using comes from a "format de poche". I guess I bought that "pocket pack" on my trip to Canada. It's a nice little reminder ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: The Laramie Project
Monday, 2 July 2001, 9:39 am | Rosalea Barker
There is no way into this story but to call it what it is. You may have read about 'The Laramie Project' - TIME magazine described it as "a pioneering work... a powerful stage event" and the New York Times called it "Extraordinary." ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: I Hear The Cottonwoods
Wednesday, 27 June 2001, 8:53 am | Rosalea Barker
According to Monday morning's newscast, a million people lined the streets of San Francisco to watch the Gay Pride parade on Sunday. Not me. I was camping up near Yuba Pass on the Sierra Nevada. Talk about living dangerously - I was an intern. ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Diorama
Monday, 18 June 2001, 8:47 am | Rosalea Barker
Writing Well, I presume, is near Walden Pond, where Henry Thoreau so famously went to simplify life and cut the cackle. Anxious to do a bit of cackle-cutting of my own I recently enrolled in a course on copyediting and while shopping for my textbooks ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Moral Dilemma Month
Monday, 11 June 2001, 9:29 am | Rosalea Barker
Stateside With Rosalea: June Is Moral Dilemma Month In North America It was a little moral dilemma that raised its two heads at first: should I follow the signs pointing the way for 'background players' and bluff my way into being an extra extra - read ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: North Of The Border
Tuesday, 5 June 2001, 7:50 am | Rosalea Barker
It is an astonishing season for azaleas and rhododendrons. Peach and pink, mauve and red, they are everywhere in total bloom. And by everywhere I mean from the Bay Area, where I live, to Vancouver, where I’m visiting for my annual vacation. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Arts Edition
Monday, 28 May 2001, 11:18 am | Rosalea Barker
Anyone old enough to remember Zwines nightclub in Auckland (or even the classic Blams' melody alluded to above) is by definition a boring old fart well past the use-by date punks had stamped onto their foreheads back in the late 1970s. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Dinosaur Botty Coughs
Monday, 21 May 2001, 9:37 am | Rosalea Barker
Lately I've been wondering if I can get mates rates at the cryogenics lab downstairs in the building where I work. Man, I'd love to be around in 70 years' time to read the history books. Will 12.30pm, Friday 25 May 2001 be there? That's the time and ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: A Fine Tub O' Tuna
Monday, 14 May 2001, 9:44 am | Rosalea Barker
Trying to make sense of California's energy 'crisis' is like putting your hand in a bucket of eels. Just when you think you've got hold of something substantial to hang onto it slips away. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Out and About
Monday, 7 May 2001, 8:59 am | Rosalea Barker
As part of the San Francisco Film Festival the Pacific Film Archive hosted a programme of restored films from the early days of French cinema. They were presented by Serge Bromberg of Lobster Films, Paris, who related how he was alerted to the presence ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Yeah, right!
Monday, 30 April 2001, 9:50 am | Rosalea Barker
It's a little phrase that slipped into my vocabulary with ease, epitomising as it does laconic cynicism. I found myself saying it out loud a couple of months ago as I walked into a movie theatre late and heard the stirring words of the voiceover ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Cartoon Network
Monday, 23 April 2001, 10:03 am | Rosalea Barker
Holy Batballs, Wonder Boy! Doesn't that VQ1 squadron have a lightning bolt and a bat on its insignia along with the words "World Watchers"? And doesn't it surveill not only China but the West Coast of America and the Arabian Gulf? Has the Batmobile ... More >>
