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Hamlet – Theater Review by Frank C. Siraguso

Posted on September 9, 2014March 23, 2021 by Frank C. Siraguso

Theater review by Frank C. Siraguso Directed by Mark Robbins with a great cast, the Kansas City Actors Theatre  production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet is timeless yet modern, dark with foreboding undercurrents of…

Mint manifesto

Posted on September 2, 2014 by Frank C. Siraguso

I like mint. I like chocolate. I don’t especially like the two together. After some pondering, I think the reason is that mint has a cool taste and chocolate has a warm…

Nixon resigns – 40 years ago today

Posted on August 8, 2014March 23, 2021 by Frank C. Siraguso

I remember exactly where I was Thursday, August 8, 1974, the night Richard Nixon announced his impending resignation I and a friend were glued to the radio in his car, parked outside…

The Burglary – book report

Posted on July 22, 2014August 16, 2022 by Frank C. Siraguso

The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI by Frank C. Siraguso July 22, 2014 On the night of Monday, March 8, 1971, Muhammad Ali challenged Joe Frazier for the world heavyweight…

Don’t Get Sick in America – book report

Posted on May 30, 2014September 20, 2018 by Frank C. Siraguso

“It may go on for years—efforts to put bandaids on the present system, with cost-control decrees and new arrangements for the poor, while the campaign for national health insurance gathers force. But…

Why you and I might not retire

Posted on March 26, 2014March 23, 2021 by Frank C. Siraguso

When I was around 10 years old, my vision of retirement was to work until 65 and then “fish my life away.” Role models included my maternal grandfather, who retired from the…

Finding the Ghost in the Machine

Posted on March 6, 2014January 15, 2018 by Frank C. Siraguso

“Management researchers . . . dig deeper and deeper into the human psyche in their search for the ‘ghost in the machine’ – that elusive spirit that inspired enthusiastic human action and…

Smoking Typewriters – book report

Posted on January 14, 2014September 20, 2018 by Frank C. Siraguso

The Sixties Underground Press and the rise of Alternative Media in America “As that old journalistic hound dog, A. J. Liebling put it, ‘Freedom of the press belongs to those who own…

New era takes off in Red skies as another goes down the drain

Posted on November 12, 2013November 13, 2013 by Frank C. Siraguso

One can’t have read Arlie Hochschild’s The Managed Heart and continue thinking about any working stiff, woman or man, in the same way. Ever. It affects me especially when I’m at a…

Macrobiotic french fries

Posted on November 25, 2012January 26, 2018 by Frank C. Siraguso

Kansas City has always been a meat-lover’s town. Early vegetarian restaurants’ lousy cooking years ago may have kept it that way longer than it should have. Maybe it was the post-Thanksgiving repast…

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He Don’t Look Like Elvis is the unflinching, tragicomic true tale of how I became Frankie Stone, a bass player for Elvis impersonator Bobby Love and his band, the Love Machine.

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