When Paul Gardner takes three-day weekends in the summer he travels light. He wraps a small pouch around his waist to go camping in the mountains of Naples or the Adirondacks. In the pouch, Gardner carries a disposable poncho, a lighter, a knife, and a 12-foot rope. And yes, the survivalist does this on purpose. […]
Geoff Graser
Posted inMusic
Five for fighting
An hour before taking the stage Sunday night, the bald 18-year-old hunted for a good couch to nap on at Water Street Music Hall. The month before, Charlie Coté lay in a hospital bed at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, uncertain if he would respond to a last-resort treatment for malignant melanoma — […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Go ahead, push me
At a recent practice for PUSH Physical Theatre, Tom Ohl and Topher Holt made handstand pushups look like routine jumping jacks. Gravity never weighs PUSH performers down; the five-person troupe relies on it to carve an imaginary world out of the air around them. “There should be a sense for the audience that the air […]
Posted inNews & Opinion
Free wheelin’
It’s a few minutes before 8 a.m., and Tony Burgio and Dean Contreras are eating nearly identical breakfasts. Burgio has already polished off a bowl of grits before a server brings plates crowded with an omelet, home fries, and a buttered bagel. Another plate of doughnuts eyes them from the middle of the table. They […]
