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PRAYER WORKS George Muller was born in Prussia on September 27, 1805. His father was a collector of taxes and George seemed to inherit his father's...
Contributor: SermonCentral
Scripture: James 4:2-4:3
Tags: Blessing, Blessed, Prayer Adoration, Prayer General
Shared: 4/29/2002
MEMORIAL DAY, A TIME FOR HEALING Memorial Day, perhaps more than any other holiday, was born of human necessity. Deep inside all of us lies a fund...
Contributor: SermonCentral
Scripture: 1 Chronicles 29:1-29:5
Tags: Prophet, Amos, Finding Fulfillment, Holidays Civic
Shared: 5/19/2002
Walt Disney was a dreamer. His crowning vision was EPCOT; Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. He envisioned the...
Contributor: SermonCentral
Scripture: Revelation 3:1-3:22
Tags: Church Purpose Of
Shared: 10/19/2009
HORROR TO HOPE--A STORY FROM THE HOLOCAUST In Jerusalem there is a Holocaust Museum dedicated to the memory of the millions of Jews who were killed...
Contributor: SermonCentral
Scripture: Job 42:10-42:17, Jeremiah 29:10-29:14
Tags: God Brings Hope
Shared: 5/7/2012
IF ONLY There was a great Scotch writer and historian in the nineteenth century named Thomas Carlyle. He married a woman, who'd worked as his secre...
Contributor: SermonCentral
Scripture: James 4:13-4:17
Tags: Death, Remorse, Parable Ten Virgins, Regret
Shared: 8/1/2012
The Spirit of Power that we receive is not like the human power that we recognize as strong. It's a power unlike anything we can do on our own. A...
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Scripture: Luke 24:49, Matthew 28:19-28:20, John 1:1-1:50, Matthew 28:19, Luke 9:57-9:67, [more]
Tags: Friend, Friendship
Shared: 10/28/2007
A small congregation in the foothills of the Great Smokies built a new sanctuary on a piece of land willed to them by a church member. Ten days before...
Contributor: SermonCentral
Scripture: Acts 2:1-2:10
Tags: Faith, Mountain Moving
Shared: 3/25/2010
She was nearly blind. She was born on April 14, 1866 to Irish immigrants. Life was hard and from the age of three her vision began to fail. To add...
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Scripture: none
Tags: none
Shared: 9/7/2006
Bill McCartney retired as the head coach of the Colorado football team several years ago. His reason for retirement was not because he was unsuccessf...
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Scripture: Haggai 1:4-1:19, Haggai 1:4
Shared: 11/14/2001
A few years ago I conducted a funeral for a dedicated Christian man. His wife approached me and said, "He's the lucky one—I wish I...
Contributor: SermonCentral
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 7:1-7:2, Ecclesiastes 3:1-3:8
Tags: Heaven
Shared: 11/3/2002


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Pulitzer Prize winning author, Sonia Nazario had adapted her adult book for teens. It's the story of sixteen-year-old Enrique whose mother left her children in Honduras to come to the U.S. 12 years earlier with the promise she would return. When she doesn't, Enrique decides he will go to his mother. The journey is fraught with danger as he rides the tops of trains while hiding from the authorities, thugs, and bandits. Enrique's journeys across Central America and Mexico are a study in determination and the strength of love. His story will give readers a new perspective on illegal immigration and some things to think about. WARNING; Nazario does not gloss over beatings, rapes, maimings, and even murder.
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There aren't many options for Abilene swimmers this summer
Multiple factors force Abilene State Park and Stevenson pools to close
ABILENE, Texas - Abilene swimmers may have to change their swimming locations this summer due to the closings of two public pools.
"It's real inconvenient," said Freddie Galvan, who swam at both Stevenson and Rose Park pools. "When they have to drive somewhere farther than they wanted."
The Abilene State Park is facing problems such as fencing issues, electrical woes, and structural damage.
"We noticed we were leaking like 10 to 20 thousand gallons a day," said Rick Thompson, Abilene State Park superintendent. "We had to shut it down. That was more water than our water systems could keep up with."
The Stevenson Park pool is closed this summer due to leaks and declining attendance through the years.
"Stevenson Park pool is almost 59 years old, it's a very old pool," said James Childers, City of Abilene Community Service Director. "It served well over that time period but it's probably tripled the life of a lot of pools"
Renovations to the Abilene State Park are underway, and it's planned that the pool will re-open in 2015.
While the future of Stevenson Park is still undecided, Childers says it will either re-open or be converted into a new splash pad.
Both the Rose Park Pool and the Nelson Park splash pad will still be open through the Summer. Their information is listed below:
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This crowd-pleasing tower is filled with a tantalizing assortment of fresh fruits, savory favorites and sweet treats that are sure to satisfy. Filled with Our Signature Beef Summer Sausage, delicious cheeses and Berry Nut Bounty Mix, this tower comes in a stack of beautifully bowed boxes, which makes for a great gift presentation.
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Slice up the sausage and cheese and place the nuts and berries in small plates. Your guests will take care of the rest.
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And it was, pretty much. Half of Ventnor's 42 firefighters had homes damaged in the storm.
A year after a day the firefighters would actually rather not think that much about, Cahill and the others on his shift got off at 8 a.m. and figured they had to do something.


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That family. It certainly is an exclusive bunch, Mickey Ward's gaggle of siblings and parents and step-parents. Being ambitious, responsible, self-aware and of sound mind, he's the black sheep of the brood, which, without him, is a collective bunch of amusingly befuddled, aimless, brash, obnoxious — but intensely devoted — individuals.
That's why "The Fighter" is about not boxing, but the ties that bind. It's far too eccentric and colorful to be another "Rocky" rehash, focusing on the relationship of two brothers who can't live without each other. Mickey (Mark Wahlberg) is trying to slug his way into the big leagues, and older half-brother Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale) is his trainer. Their shared mother Alice (Melissa Leo) is Mickey's manager, but that's another garishly dressed, hairspray-drenched, belligerent complication entirely.
Mickey's on the cusp of professional boxing fame. He wins, he loses, he's in, he's out. Most of his struggles can be attributed to Alice's mismanagement and her apparent desire to leech off his success for her own gain. Also, the constant worry created by Dicky, who spends too much time huffing crack out of a pop bottle. Dicky used to be a contender: in 1978, he knocked down Sugar Ray Leonard. Whether the champ slipped or was legitimately clobbered is up for interpretation. Fifteen years later, Dicky clings to this lifeline, even though at this point, it's a frayed strand of dental floss.
'The Fighter'
4 out of 4 stars
Rated: R for language throughout, drug content, some violence, sexuality
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo
Director: David O. Russell
Run time: 114 minutes
Now, it's 1993, and an HBO documentary crew is following Dicky. Does he truly realize that they're shooting a piece about crack addicts, not his claim to fame in the ring? I don't know. The guy's a mess. But Bale is the life of this movie; he knows when to go big and when to dial it down and be suggestive. It's a vital, tragicomic character, and Bale makes sure Dicky's motivation derives from a place of purity, from love for his brother and of the sport. The film is great because of him, and it hinges on his performance.
Wahlberg is his foil. Sincerity is his strength, and it works extraordinarily well here, for he's the foundation upon which gifted director David O. Russell can construct this comedy. Yes, comedy. "The Fighter" sports weightier dramatic elements and rah-rah sports bits, and is certainly Russell's most blatant jab at commercial appeal (his 2000 film "Three Kings" is an underappreciated satirical masterwork). And here I predict his success, for the film is a superb balance of many genres, without adhering to any of them. It's slippery and exciting and unpredictable. It's also based on a true story, for what that's worth.
Taking a lively, skewed approach, Russell makes sure the characters leap off the screenplay page. Leo plays the domineering Alice — who wields guilt like a cudgel when Mickey gets another manager — about 10, no, 20 percent larger than life, and everyone but Wahlberg follows her lead. Mickey's seven sisters follow Alice, their Pattonesque general. One is nicknamed Beaver. Another, Red Dog. One is played by Conan O'Brien's sister. I don't know about the rest, and who their fathers are; there's an explanation early in the film, so convoluted, it's a joke.
Anyway, they blend into a 'hood-rat riffraff chorus of teased hair, slack jaws, acid-washed jeans, ever-present cigarettes, soap-opera addictions and rampant joblessness. They raise Dicky's toddler son. (I'd like to see the final product.) They also don't take kindly to Mickey's new girlfriend, a college-educated bartender played by Amy Adams, probably because she's attractive, smart and is a positive influence. They call her "MTV girl," and she proves herself with a wicked right hook. Meanwhile, in a bid to raise money for Mickey's next fight, sadly and hilariously, Dicky literally pimps out his girlfriend and ends up in the clink after his 27th arrest.
"The Fighter" is much more than one man's attempt to punch his way out of Palookaville. Perhaps that's obvious. Far richer than most sports films, it earns its crescendoes and features much more than ringside-announcer narration and montages set to Aerosmith songs. Its laughs are genuine, and Russell strikes a tone that's equally satiric and honest. And at its core is an offbeat rumination on the complications of blood ties — Mickey's family is a ball and chain on his ankle. But they are family.
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Thursday, June 26, 2014
Dear Liz,
I am working full time, have two children, ages 6 and 9, and am expecting in August. My husband says he has to walk on eggshells because I am so extra touchy. He says it is worse this time.
I am very emotional and somewhat reactive, but I dont think its more than normal for my pregnant self. I dont want any tension to affect the kids, my pregnancy or alienate my husband whom I love. Suggestions?
Two months to go
Dear Two months...,
You have both your hands AND your body full. Add to that the hormones of pregnancy, record heat this June AND a full-time job plus two kids and a hubby well that could make anyone a tad touchy!
I would first advise that you pace yourself and enlist the help of family and friends to balance the demands upon you.
It is vital you stay hydrated, well fed and rest whenever you get a chance.
Your children are old enough to, at the very least, pick up after themselves and help around the house.
I suggest you and your husband meet first to talk (calmly) about what each child should do, what responsibilities you each have (clearly defined) and what things you can get others to help with and what you can let slide.
I always enjoy counseling expectant parents/families to ease with the current and upcoming joys (and stressors), so may I suggest some specific short-term counseling to make sure you can safely discuss what needs to be discussed and keep tensions to a minimum.
Best wishes! And stay cool.
Dear Liz,
My middle schoolers have reading to do this summer. It is the nearing the end of June and not a page has been turned! Ive tried reminding, threatening, removing privileges, bribery what else is there?
Dear Frustrated,
Sounds like middle schoolers indeed. The first day they love school, the second they hate school, and the third day they cant find school!
You did not mention how they usually do in school. My goal for all students is for them to learn to both own and value their education. That includes responsibilities of homework, schoolwork, projects and behavioral choices.
I would sit down and calmly talk about your concerns with them and ask THEM for a plan to make sure they complete this requirement at least two weeks before school resumes. You may need to help them break the reading into measurable, palatable doses and deadlines. Ask them to come up with small, meaningful rewards for completing each dose. Be clear that if they do not complete their assignments prior to the last two weeks of summer break, they will do NOTHING but read for the last two weeks and mean it. Tell them it is their CHOICE, which gives them the power to succeed or make their own lives miserable!
One last thought, designate a reading time each day where you all take a reading break. It is contagious and provides structure.
Make it a pleasant time for yourself as well!
Please send your questions and comments to asksharpliz@ gmail.com.
Liz Brisacher Sharp is a Masters-level Licensed Professional Counselor in private practice with 35 years experience in mental health including serving as a school counselor, and as a consultant and mediator.
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Worst President i have ever seen,he did inherit a debt i know,but he has increased it and has not followed up on one promise,i usually am a staunch republican,but i voted Obama i fell into his bullsht lies he is a great speaker like Clinton,great orators like those fellows can hypnotize a man.
Bu he has not delivered anything he fcking promised,my state went from 8 percent unemployment to 15 fcking percent,the troops are still in Iraq and Afghanistan,everything he said was a load of sht.
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Obama just couldn't deliver on his promises to us... He promised Hope which was a very tall order with the world's current state of affairs.
Overall he has done what any man can do in so complicated and overwhelming a situation. His hair is graying, just like Clinton's and many other presidents. The job is too big now. It destroys those who undertake it.
Overall Obama is catching so much flakk because he promised so much, but in terms of his actual reign, its not so bad. Better than Bush Jr. Not quite as good as Clinton. My take.
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According to this fact checking site Obama made 506 promises, kept 134 of them with 220 still in the works.
Out of the 172 remaining election promises only 38 amount to actual broken promises, 41 have resulted in a compromise and 71 of them have stalled due to disagreement with congress.
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My take on Obama, not going into details is that I feel he is a very smart man, who has intended well for this country. He's endured ridiculous attacks and accusations of being a Socialist, Nazi, Communist and everything in between.
He's by far NOT the worst president ever, he just inherited a giant sh1t sandwich and we all have to take a bite. He's 100 X better than Bush Jr. and about 1000X smarter.
I just feel his policies might have worked better in another time, with a different economy. I like the fact he isn't just threatening the rest of the world like the Bush's and Reagans of the world and has come forward and said things I would have never thought to hear from a president in my lifetime.
Like defending the rights of gays and Muslims in this country, it's great to see someone finally not be afraid to say that.
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"Why is it no one ever trusts the eunuch?"So you've got a villain and you've got to give him a Red Right Hand, and your protagonist is the manliest of men. So, why not make your villain a Foil and remove his male organ? Especially prevalent in fantasy, the Evil Eunuch is simultaneously creepy and effeminate, which makes him an obvious villain. Eunuchs are also more snakelike. A subtrope of Sissy Villain, and the "logical" extreme of A Man Is Not a Virgin. Eunuchs tend to be Evil Chancellor types. Comes out of Confucian historians' bias against eunuchs in Chinese culture. If a villain like this has supernatural powers, it could technically be considered a male, villainous case of Virgin Power - although very few eunuchs are chaste by choice, which arguably makes it more of a Disability Superpower. Compare Evil Albino, Evil Cripple, and Depraved Dwarf.
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Anime & Manga
- The High Eunuchs from Code Geass, Evil Chancellors who betray the Chinese Federation for personal gain.
- In Anatolia Story, it's revealed that Urhi Shalma was forcibly made a eunuch when he was a child, because he was the Sole Survivor of the royal family of a kingdom that was conquered, and the conquerors didn't want to risk him having heirs. He only reveals that he's a eunuch towards the end of the series, when it's necessary to clear up rumors that he's secretly Juda's father.
Card Games
- The Magic: The Gathering expansion Portal Three Kingdoms has a card called Corrupt Eunuchs.
- Dragon Inn and its sequels/remakes New Dragon Inn and Flying Swords Of Dragon Gate featured evil eunuchs.
- Evil Eunuchs are a Hong Kong cinematic tradition, as seen in Butterfly Sword and A Touch of Zen. If the movie has a fantasy bent, expect the eunuch to be some flavor of Evil Sorcerer.
- Amber Sweet's psychologically-neutered valets from Repo! The Genetic Opera. They still have male genitalia and are traditionally masculine-looking beefcakes, but have had their sex drives obliterated to the point of incapability.
- Heroic Trio plays on the Chinese myth of eunuchs being evil, mystical beings.
- Jonah King from Drive Angry was literally emasculated before the film begins, and he heads a Satanic cult. The heroes spend the whole movie calling him "Dickless."
- The villain in Orgazmo is blasted with the orgazmo ray so many times in the "climax" of the film that he returns in the epilogue for a Sequel Hook, proclaiming himself to be a eunuch and thus immune to Orgazmo's weapon (just like the villainious character they created in the movie-within-a-movie to bump off Orgazmo's character).
- Possibly averted in Curse of the Golden Flower, where the court eunuchs and servants side with the Empress and the coup against the Big Bad.
- 14 Blades features a particularly powerful Court Eunuch, Jia, as one half of a Big Bad Duumvirate. Until the other half decides he has outlived his usefulness, that is.
- In The Lone Ranger, Latham Cole is hinted to have become a eunuch during the Civil War.
- Averted with Bob Paulson from Fight Club, who lost his testicles to cancer stemming from steroid abuse. Despite being duped into joining Fight Club and Project Mayhem, Bob is probably the nicest character in the whole movie, and he repeatedly demonstrates that he has plenty of figurative "balls."
- Varys, the eunuch spymaster from A Song of Ice and Fire, has traits of this, but it's unclear if he's really evil. While he'll gladly stab anyone in the back, he tells Ned that he'll do anything to keep the realm relatively stable, as the last thing he wants is a repeat of the last war and all its casualties. However he does try to destabilized the realms, as its part of his plan to bring Aegon Targaryen VI to power.
- Possibly inverted by Theon Greyjoy who is a jerk with his manhood intact, but manages to become more sympathetic after a Trauma Conga Line which involves it, among various other extremities, being cut off.
- In The Belgariad, the Deadly Decadent Court of Nyissa is staffed by eunuchs, most of whom are backstabbing poisoners as a matter of course. Subverted in the Mallorean sequel series by the former Chief Eunuch Sadi, an Anti-Hero who joins the protagonists and eventually helps save the world.
- The Elenium features the Elder God Azash, a God of Evil whom the Younger Gods castrated in order to reduce his power.
- Not quite a eunuch, but Darken Rahl from The Sword of Truth series is implied to have a serious scarred, nearly burnt-off penis. But it's damn close.
- Considering the amount of lovers he took, the damage was largely cosmetical.
- In the first chapter of The Years of Rice and Salt, a character is made a eunuch and eventually becomes one of the high ranking ones in ancient China. He wasn't out-and-out evil, but pretty close.
- Evil Eunuchs have been a staple villain in China for centuries—the trouble started in the Latter Han period, where the Emperor would end up in a power struggle between his relatives and the imperial court, and the eunuchs who served him would be trusted with state secrets. (Romance of the Three Kingdoms chronicles such a power struggle that sees Dong Zhuo rise to power.)
- Inversion. In The Emperor's Winding Sheet by Jill Paton Walsh the most admirable character was a Byzantine Eunuch.
- Another inversion. In The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin(and sequels), The Hero is a nineteenth century Ottoman Eunuch who solves crimes.
- This is a given in the world of the Judge Dee novels; 'The necessary but horribly dangerous source of evil in every palace!' And yet he clearly feels a certain respect for the Chief Eunuch in Necklace and Calabash. It's mutual.
- The Alexandrian palace cabal in the Masters of Rome series.
- Biblical Inversion: the first Christian convert from Ethiopia was a eunuch. Jesus also praised eunuchs for their purity.
- Narses is an antivillain in the Belisarius Series. While a traitor and an assassin he is not particularly sadistic and has some claims to being an Only Sane Man. Interestingly he is not shown as effeminate; he is certainly more traditionally manly then the Vile One except in the strictly biological sense that the later has slave-girls as his favorite entertainment, while residing in his mobile palace so far to the rear of the battlefield as not to be in any danger. An entertainment which Narses is incapable of should he have been inclined to stoop to it.
- Narses is a good-guy and the protagonist's mentor in Gillian Bradshaw's The Bearkeeper's Daughter. He himself says, 'When men curse eunuchs they make an exception for me.'
- Mary Renault's The Persian Boy is a definite subversion. The narrator and protagonist is Bagoas, who was forcibly castrated at a young age and became the lover of both King Darius of III of Persia and, later, Alexander the Great. From the outside he might seem like a scheming eunuch, but because we see everything from his perspective and are privy to his train of thought, he becomes a very sympathetic character.
- Renault took his story right out of the history books. To complicate matters, King Darius had had a Grand Vizier also called Bagoas, who was this trope to the hilt.
- Inverted with Sazed in the Mistborn series, who is probably the nicest character among all the main characters of the series, and then he becomes the new god of the setting and saves it from total annihilation.
- Played with in Everworld; Hel's harem-city is guarded by eunuchs, but one of them purposefully slips Jalil a hint that Galahad's sword could hurt her, which helps them escape.
- Somewhat subverted by Count Hasimir Fenring in Dune, he's a scheming member of the imperial court who may have poisoned Emperor Shaddam's father. But when ordered to kill Paul he refuses ( Turns out, he's a failed attempt at a Kwisatz Haderach due to a genetic defect that made him sterile.)
- Shukeli from The Scarlet Citadel was stated to have lost all normal desires, and only have cruelty in their place.
- In The Emperor's Tomb by Steve Berry, there is a conspiracy of eunuchs to manipulate the course of Chinese history.
- Played straight in Gore Vidal's Julian, set at the court of Julian the Apostate.
- In The Smiling, Proud Wanderer by Louis Cha, Dongfang Bubai, Yue Buqun, and Lin Pingzhiall become eunuchs at varying points in the story to learn martial arts manuals. Dongfang Bubai practiced Sunflower Manual, which is actually a sister manual to the Evil-Repelling Sword Buqun and Pingzhi both learn. Both manuals give their practioners nearly invincible speed. Zig-Zagged considering most of the characters who try to learn these manuals are already villainous like Yue Buqun and his rival Zuo Lengshan but played straight by Lin Pingzhi who underwent increasing Sanity Slippage after learning it to the point of murdering the only woman who loved and supported him.
Live Action TV
- On Game of Thrones Varys could be described this way, although that's not how he sees it.
- The Villain of the Week of one episode of Alcatraz was a serial poisoner who had lost his testicles when a bully threw a firecracker at him.
- The Carver, one of the primary antagonists in Nip/Tuck was revealed as this as a plot twist and part of his character motivation.
- Adverted in Magnificent Century, where the eunuchs are almost like Gay Best Friends.
Tabletop Games
- The 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons: Oriental Adventures book had a Prestige Class based entirely around this trope called the Eunuch Warlock. Being evil is a requirement.
- The Eaters of the Lotus from Feng Shui, an entire cabal of evil eunuch sorcerers.
- Evil eunuchs (sorcerous and otherwise) also show up with some frequency in Martial Arts adventures in Hong Kong Action Theatre.
- While it's nearly impossible to figure out what they're really thinking, Koby and Loby probably count as this in The Visit, since it was those two who decided it would be hilarious to set a vicious panther on the town of Guellen.
- In Parsifal, the Big Bad Klingsor is implied to have castrated himself in a failed attempt to prove himself worthy of being a Grail Knight.
Video Games
- Near the Thief's ending of Quest for Glory II, the hero must sneak past several eunuchs to get into the palace at Raseir - while not explicitly stated to be evil, they're Mooks of the very evil dictator who you're trying to overthrow, and if they see you it's game over. In the Mage's or Fighter's ending, there is one eunuch that can spot you, and you need to take him out before reinforcements arrive.
- Suwonkas from Utawarerumono not only a VERY creepy Sissy Villain of the highest order, he also thanks the amazon to whom he was all Yandere for chopping his balls off, because they freed him from "the curse of masculinity." He does gets an in-universe Alas, Poor Villain from the woman that he went Yandere level Love Makes You Crazy for, though.
- Salazar from Resident Evil 4.
- The MMORPG Age Of Wushu has recently announced a faction of these called "The Rootless Clan". There's also The Sunflower Manual, a Harder Than Hard Prestige Class based on this archetype, which requires an absolutely absurd number of player kills to level up. In-universe the former were inspired by the latter.
- Interestingly played with in China - The Forbidden City: While investigating a murder case that only ends with more murders, the player interacts with a great deal of Eunuchs (who are normal servants in the city). Since most are obedient, quiet and merely more then NP Cs, two are a important part of the plot and - of course - in on the murder plot. Though them being evil is less contributed to them being Eunuchs as them being able to move freely around the city.
- It's offhandedly mentioned that Excellus in Fire Emblem Awakening is an eunuch. His behavior makes it rather obvious. He's also easily the biggest slimeball in the game, making even Gangrel look pleasant.
Real Life
- Real eunuchs were as good and evil as any other courtiers and no more inclined to plot than anyone else in a Deadly Decadent Court. Some were trusted and loyal servants. Byzantine eunuchs were not slaves, but were often commoners who had been given The Procedure at their parents' request in the hope that they would have a good career. The Real Life Narses (not the fictional one) was a Four-Star Badass who conquered large parts of Italy for the Emperor Justinian.
- The fact that (obviously) eunuchs couldn't have sons meant that they were trusted to take powerful positions on merit and not found a dynasty of their own.
- On the other hand, Poul Anderson lists a Byzantine saying in one of his historical novels about Harald Hardrada to the effect of, "If you own a eunuch, kill him; if not, buy one, and then kill him." Though another character immediately responds that, were such a thing done to him, "I might make of my life one long revenge."
- The Ottoman Turkish sultans frequently used eunuchs as assassins and executioners. Likewise, the harem women often plotted with eunuchs to kill the rival harem women's sons in order to enhance their own sons' chances on becoming the next Sultan. Unfortunately, those women themselves very often ended up stuffed in a bag and thrown in the Strait of Bosphorus by those same eunuchs...
- The usual method of execution in Ottoman Turkey was strangling the convict by a bowstring.
- While eunuchs are generally associated with Eastern courts, they were known in Europe as well under the term castrati. They originated in the Vatican but quickly became the rock stars of the eighteenth century aristocracy. While Farinelli, the most famous of all castrati, was noted for his kindness and humility, most were said to be vain, arrogant, and all-around divalicious. From The Other Wiki:
Caffarelli was notorious for his unpredictability and displays of temperament, both on and off stage. On stage he is reputed to have sung his own preferred versions irrespective of what his colleagues were doing, mimicking them while they sang their solos and sometimes conversing with members of the public in their boxes during the same. Off stage his pugnacity and fierce demeanour led to his willingness to fight duels under little provocation. Such behaviour led to spells of house arrest and imprisonment for assault and for misconduct during performances. Most infamously he completely humiliated of a prima donna during a performance of Hasse's Antigono in 1745. On the other hand, with Handel, also a famously fiery character, he seems to have been able to coexist on a peaceable basis, perhaps due to the fantastic sums of money the composer paid him for his work.
- Castrato voices are often described in contemporary accounts as eerie, unreal, bizarre, but beautiful. They had Michael Jackson-like fandoms. A choir of them were part of the orchestra at Napoleon's coronation: their voices were so powerful as to drown out a nearby harp orchestra and three-hundred member choir of "normal" voices.
- There were also lurid rumours about the affairs between castrato singers (Farinelli and Caffarelli particularly) and members of the upper classes of both sexes. However, these are probably more evidence of prejudice against them and their fandoms than backed up by reality (seeing as they would almost inevitably have a low to non-existent sex drive and micropenis.) Whether they worked on people's infatuations with them for patronage would be another matter.
- China had its share of evil eunuchs, and the Ming Dynasty is practically full of these. This was because the system gave the emperor dictatorial powers, but the later emperors may not have been competent enough to use these powers himself and often used eunuchs as their proxy. Wei Zhongxian, the most infamous of them all, even tried to deify himself.
- One may wonder if it wasn't a case of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. Even if their existence was vital for Imperial Court, eunuchs were considered an inferior species by definition. There was a common consensus that since they had lost their manhood they would never ever reincarnate as a proper men. The only way to avoid this fate was getting money and position to buy them back from the person who preformed the operation and emulate a normal men lifestyle like getting married and adopting children. Since only those of the highest rank could afford such expensive action, being a eunuch meant constant struggle to grain the emperor's favor and wealth. No holds barred.
- Some historians belive the "Evil Eunuch" trope was invented in the Ming Dynasty as a good scapegoat for any mistakes the Emperor made. The Emperor was considered to be a God on Earth and therefore infalliable, so if he did anything wrong it needed to be explained away as him being deceived or lead astray by those close to him. Since eunuchs would obviously have no descendants to speak for them, they were the perfect people to pin the blame on, since any full man would have powerful sons and grandsons who would defend their ancestor's honour to the hilt.
- Ming Dynasty subversion: Admiral Zheng He, loyalist, explorer, and commander of a gigantic treasure fleet. Also a Celibate Hero and Handicapped Badass.
- Pothinus, at least in Roman recordings that are the ones that have survived, is portrayed as a power-hungry Smug Snake that used the child king Ptolemy XIII of Egypt to seize power for himself, drew him off Cleopatra causing a civil war and beheaded Pompey the Great when he came to Egypt seeking asylum to top it off.


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No True Believer
Obama's ISIS illogic leads him in surprising directions.
"Let's be clear about ISIL," President Obama declared yesterday after it was confirmed that the terrorist group (known as ISIS in our stylebook) had murdered American journalist Jim Foley by decapitation.
The president kept his promise of clarity only for a few sentences: "They have rampaged across cities and villages--killing innocent, unarmed civilians in cowardly acts of violence. They abduct women and children, and subject them to torture and rape and slavery. They have murdered Muslims--both Sunni and Shia--by the thousands. They target Christians and religious minorities, driving them from their homes, murdering them when they can for no other reason than they practice a different religion. They declared their ambition to commit genocide against an ancient people."
But then he descended into sophistry: "So ISIL speaks for no religion. Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocents. No just God would stand for what they did yesterday, and for what they do every single day."
Hmm. ISIS both "speaks for no religion" and targets "Christians and religious minorities" because "they practice a different religion." Different from what? Then the categorical statement: "No faith teaches people to massacre innocents." Then the curiously qualified statement: "No just God would stand for" ISIS's actions.
On its own, Obama's claim about "No just God" would appear to be a denial of God's existence (or a denial that God is just)--that is, a statement of the problem of evil from the point of view of a religious skeptic. But in context, the statement is surely meant to be understood as another way of denying that ISIS is motivated by religion--that no true believer would commit such atrocities.
If that is correct, this is a classic example of the No True Scotsman fallacy. We've quoted the archetype, by philosopher Antony Flew, before, but it's worth repeating:
Imagine Hamish McDonald, a Scotsman, sitting down with his Glasgow Morning Herald and seeing an article about how the "Brighton Sex Maniac Strikes Again." Hamish is shocked and declares that "No Scotsman would do such a thing." The next day he sits down to read his Glasgow Morning Herald again; and, this time, finds an article about an Aberdeen man whose brutal actions make the Brighton sex maniac seem almost gentlemanly. This fact shows that Hamish was wrong in his opinion but is he going to admit this? Not likely. This time he says, "No true Scotsman would do such a thing." . . .
The No-true-Scotsman Move . . . is an attempt to evade falsification: a piece of sleight of mind replaces a logically contingent by a logically necessary proposition.
Is Obama merely confused, or is there a rhetorical strategy at work here? We'd speculate it's the latter. The first letter of the terrorist organization's acronym stands for "Islamic," a fact the president implicitly acknowledges by not including Muslim victims among those targeted because "they practice a different religion." Although his statements are logically consistent with the proposition that Islam is not a true religion, there is ample evidence that he thinks it is.
Thus, what he appears to be trying to suggest is that the ISIS terrorists are not true Muslims. He goes on to pledge his support to "the people of Iraq" and "the people of Syria," and call for "a common effort" involving "governments and peoples across the Middle East." The vast majority of Syrians, Iraqis and other Middle Easterners are Muslim, so this is all in the service of an appeal to Muslims--or, as we suppose Obama would have it, to true Muslims.
It's certainly wise to offer political support to Muslims who have interests and values in common with America. Military support, too--if anything, Obama has been too restrained in that regard. But in doing so it is wholly unnecessary for Obama to lecture Muslims on the true meaning of their religion--and one suspects it is counterproductive.
But perhaps the lecture is meant for non-Muslim Americans, as a prophylactic salve against anti-Muslim bigotry. We heard similar rhetoric from George W. Bush in the aftermath of 9/11--although he had the sense to frame it as an appeal to authority: "The terrorists practice a fringe form of Islamic extremism that has been rejected by Muslim scholars and the vast majority of Muslim clerics; a fringe movement that perverts the peaceful teachings of Islam."
And Bush did acknowledge that al Qaeda's worldview is a "form of Islamic extremism." Obama, by contrast, asserted yesterday: "There has to be a clear rejection of these kind of nihilistic ideologies." While the ISIS ideology can perhaps be described as "nihilistic" in that it seeks to destroy the existing social order, the original meaning of "nihilism" refers to a lack of belief, not a fervency of it. If Obama really thinks ISIS believes in nothing, he is deluding himself as to the nature of the enemy.
Mollie Hemingway notes some other problematic assertions in Obama's statement yesterday. "People like this ultimately fail," the president said. "They fail, because the future is won by those who build and not destroy." Replies Hemingway:
Progressives, as their self-given label suggests, believe that human nature can change, if we can speak of nature at all. And not just change but be perfected. They frequently see government as the means to such transformation into a perfect society.
That's why they say . . . unbelievably inane things such as, "you're on the wrong side of history." Or "The future is always won by those who build, not destroy." . . . this "wrong side of history" nonsense is nothing more than a religious belief in supernatural causality. It implies that history isn't shaped by men but, instead, by outside inevitable forces that can always be counted on.
On the other hand, one need not be a progressive to acknowledge the possibility of progress. "One thing we can all agree on," Obama said, "is that a group like ISIL has no place in the 21st century."
Hemingway rejoins: "What does this even mean? Just at the most obvious and basic level, if 'we can all agree' with this statement, then . . . what? What do we do if we agree that this group must not exist in our general space-time continuum?"
"What do we do?" is an excellent question, and one for which the president has yet to put forth a sufficiently compelling answer. But as to "What does this mean?" we were reminded of something Dutch politician Geert Wilders said when we interviewed him in 2008:
As he sees it, the West suffers from an excess of toleration for those who do not share its tradition of tolerance. "We believe that--'we' means the political elite--that all cultures are equal," he says. "I believe this is the biggest disease today facing Europe. . . . We should wake up and tell ourselves: You're not a xenophobe, you're not a racist, you're not a crazy guy if you say, 'My culture is better than yours.' A culture based on Christianity, Judaism, humanism is better. Look at how we treat women, look at how we treat apostates, look at how we go with the separation of church and state. I can give you 500 examples why our culture is better."
It's not that Christians have never fought wars over religion, but that it's been centuries since they were part of the Western experience. Wilders doesn't think the Muslim world is capable of a similar modernization. Obama disagrees. So, by the way, did George W. Bush.
Still, Obama's conception of "the 21st century" is a distinctly Western one. When he says ISIL "has no place" in it, he implies that our culture is better.
The Taxcam
"Barack Obama once had a good idea, or at least half of one," writes National Review Online's Kevin Williamson:
As the president himself pointed out in his recent remarks on the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., during his time in the Illinois state legislature he backed a law requiring that police take video of interrogations and confessions. Here's a better idea: Capture all police interactions on video.
Doing so can make an important difference in how incidents such as the Brown shooting are understood.
Williamson notes that "I have been, and expect to be, fairly critical of our police departments." But his proposal isn't offered in a spirit of hostility to police: He cites a case he reported on in Philadelphia in which a videotape exonerated an officer who shot a young man in self-defense.
We like the idea, and would expand it to include enforcers from administrative agencies too. Just think how much we could learn if Lois Lerner had been compelled to wear a camera on her lapel.
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"Taney Little League, the Mid-Atlantic champion, plays an elimination game [in the Little League World Series] against Jackie Robinson West out of Chicago Thursday night, a game that will amount to The Diversity Bowl, one team (Chicago) being 100% African-American, and the other being predominantly African-American."--Wayne Coffey, Daily News (New York), Aug. 21
Fox Butterfield, Is That You?
"US aircraft have launched fresh strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, despite threats from the group to kill a second American captive."--BBC website, Aug. 21
Other Than That, the Story Was Innocuous
"Imagine our dismay Tuesday morning when we opened the paper to read a most offensive subhead atop a Loop item about Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro and his staff. The copy editor who wrote it--a brilliant and supremely reliable colleague who had a bad day--was attempting to evoke the Texas origins of the secretary and his aides. He has apologized. We've received a barrage of correctly outraged e-mails, the mildest of which was one asking, 'Are you people brain dead?' (We'll take a pass on that question.) We are duly mortified, chagrined and abashed and apologize to our readers."--Al Kamen and Colby Itkowitz, Washington Post, Aug. 20
Out on a Limb
- "The Islamic State's Campaign of Terror Will Take More Than Words to Stop"--headline, Washington Post, Aug. 21
- "Don't Challenge a Cop During a Stop"--headline, Chicago Tribune, Aug. 20
- "Obamacare Acting as Drag on Employment and Lifting Prices, Survey Suggests"--headline, MarketWatch.com, Aug. 21
We Blame George W. Bush
- "Social Media Slip? Blame the Intern"--headline, Washington Post website, Aug. 20
- "WMN Letters: Man to Blame for Seagull Problem"--headline, Western Morning News (Plymouth, England), Aug. 21
Promise Kept
- "Obama, Outraged Over Beheading, Vows to Stay on Course"--headline, New York Times website (via NDTV.com), Aug. 20
- "Obama Blasts Jihadis, Returns to Golf"--headline, New York Post, Aug. 20
With DNC in Mind, City Bans Carrying Urine, Feces
"Why Obama Can't Go There"--headline, Politico.com, Aug. 19
That's Nothing, He Once Had an $800,000 Cigar
"Bill Clinton Now Enjoys $1,000 Cigars"--headline, WeeklyStandard.com, Aug. 21
Generalissimo Francisco Franco Is Still Dead
- "The Teen Birth Rate Is Still Plummeting, but No One Is Entirely Sure Why"--headline, Salon.com, Aug. 20
- "Teen Use of Tanning Beds Still High Among White Girls"--headline, Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.), Aug. 21
Problem and Solution
- "DiCaprio: 'We Must Put a Price on Carbon' "--headline, TheHill.com, Aug. 21
- "8.41-Carat Purple-Pink Diamond May Fetch $15 Million"--headline, Forbes.com, Aug. 18
Cause and Effect
- "Pittsburgh First: A $250,000 Automatic Public Pay Toilet, 25 Cents per Visit"--headline, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Feb. 12, 2003
- "Two Steelers Face Pot Charges"--headline, ESPN website, Aug. 21, 2014
The Lonely Lives of Climate Scientists
"Florida Gov. Rick Scott Huddles With Climate Scientists"--headline, Washington Examiner, Aug. 20
Answers to Questions Nobody Is Asking
"Bowe Bergdahl Reveals What He Wants to Do Next"--headline, CBSNews.com, Aug. 20
Question and Answer--I
- "Why Jews Are Worried"--headline, New York Times, Aug. 21
- "Playbook: David Gregory Writing Book on Judaism"--headline, Politico.com, Aug. 21
Question and Answer--II
- "What Is the Point of Seagulls?"--headline, Guardian (London), Aug. 20, 2014
- "Someone Please Help Me. My Life Has No Porpoise.?"--headline, Yahoo! Answers, July 10, 2006
Question and Answer--III
- "Here's Why It's OK to Pee in The Ocean (Like You Were Gonna Stop)"--headline, Puffington Host, Aug. 19, 2014
- "It Isn't Easy Being Green"--photo caption, Observer-Reporter (Washington, Pa.), July 12, 1994
Question and Answer--IV
- "Why Wrigley Field Is Suddenly So Empty"--headline, The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 21
- "Missing Cub Traced, May Find New Family Soon"--headline, Times of India, Aug. 13
Breaking News From 1994
"Loss for Democrats in Midterm Elections Could Be Boon for Clinton"--headline, New York Times, Aug. 21
Bottom Story of the Day
"Hamilton Earns Title of 'Playful City USA,' Only Town in N.J. to Do So"--headline, Times of Trenton, Aug. 21
The Good News First
Is it just us, or does Greg Sargent of the Washington Post write pretty much the same thing every day? The headline and lead always promise some good news for Democrats, but then deep in the post he acknowledges that the Democrats probably aren't going to benefit from whatever it is.
It isn't just us:
Morning Plum: Obamacare disappearing as major issue
For many months after the botched rollout of the Affordable Care Act's website, it was widely stated as incontrovertible fact that Obamacare was the primary reason Democrats were likely to lose control of the Senate.
But new ad data compiled by Bloomberg News tells a very different story. In three of the top-tier Senate races--North Carolina, Arkansas, and Louisiana--spending on spots about the health law has fallen sharply. . . .
But wait--does this mean Democrats will necessarily hold the Senate? No, it doesn't. Dems could very well lose the Senate. I'd say the chances are greater than 50-50.
But why? PJMedia's Richard Fernandez has a theory: "What happened to [ObamaCare] was it got buried by Snowden, ISIS, the IRS, Benghazi, Ebola, Syria, Libya, Ferguson, Bergdahl, etc . . . who can spare a thought for Obamacare?" The good news is the bad news is worse.
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Editor's Choice
Tales from the Coral Triangle: Philippines
These 10 winning entries from the "Our Seas" story writing contest for high school students in Palawan, Philippines employ fantasy, humor, and drama to highlight the importance of protecting the ocean.
Reliable Electricity Powers Up Samoa
ADB is working with the Government of Samoa to improve the reliability of its power sector, including upgrading the country's aging distribution system.
Trade Finance Program Awards 2016
At the second annual ADB Trade Finance Program (TFP) awards ceremony on 7 September in Singapore, winning banks discuss the significance of being recognized by TFP as a leading partner bank in their country.
Asia Bond Monitor - September 2016
Yields on bonds in emerging East Asian markets declined as inflationary pressures remained largely muted and persistently low global growth increased the attractiveness of East Asian bonds.


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For a media award, just 'monitor' Israel
Surprise, surprise. It's the Israeli NGO investigating 'shocking abuse by settlers' that gets the prizes
It is a tribute to Israel's vibrant democracy that groups like B'Tselem, the Israeli NGO which monitors human rights abuses in the occupied territories, flourish. Reports from the group have dealt with issues including torture, fatal shootings by security forces, expropriation of land and discrimination in planning decisions in East Jerusalem, as well as house demolitions and violence by Israeli settlers.
How hard it would be to imagine a Palestinian non-governmental organisation which monitored the human rights abuses of Hamas with such rigour? There was scant recognition of how Fatah supporters were dragged from their hospital beds during the recent Gaza war and shot. Similarly, it would be hard to envisage a muscular Iranian human rights group monitoring the brutality of government-controlled militias in the wake of disputed elections and bringing them to the attention of Tehran's leaders.
Yet there is something unsettling about B'Tselem. After all, there are no shortage of NGOs in the Middle East which rush to judge Israeli actions. While no one wants to see the alleged abuses uncovered by B'Tselem brushed under the carpet, one cannot but think that some of its work is detrimental to the Jewish state.
One sure sign of this is the warm embrace that its activities receive in our own press. In the last week, the group was honoured with a "Special Award" at the "One World Media Awards" in London. It won the prize for an "outstanding media" enterprise under which B'Tselem provided video cameras to 160 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. A report in Guardian Media said: "the project has produced shocking footage of abuse by Israeli troops and settlers".
The film-maker Oren Yakobovich, who is behind the project, is quoted as saying: "I realised that there was something wrong with the narrative I knew. For Israelis there is a conspiracy of silence. Nobody wants to know what is happening there." Among the images obtained by B'Tselem, as a result of the project, is footage of a settler in Hebron shooting and wounding three Palestinians at close range.
Two of the settlers involved handed themselves in. But according to the report in the Guardian, prosecutors withdrew the case against one settler even though he was caught on camera.
No one can condone settler violence or the failure, if that is what it was, of the prosecutors to take action. It is also worth noting, however, that video evidence alone, without the background to the events which took place, might not be sufficient to convict in any society.
What, however, is more disturbing is the alacrity with which media awards are handed out to an Israeli organisation which, in the main, seeks to highlight wrongdoing by Israel (although it has also looked at violence among Palestinians).
It is not the first award B'Tselem — which reportedly receives some funding from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Christian Aid (UK) — has received.
In February of this year, the group received the Dutch "Geuzen Resistance 1940-45 Award" in Vlaardingen in Holland. This prize is given to organisations "advancing democracy and opposing tyranny, discrimination and racism". The idea that Israel deserves to be bracketed with "tyranny" — when there is so much on its borders — must be regarded as disappointing.
We should not, perhaps, be surprised. In 2003, the UK's Political Cartoon Society gave its top prize to a Dave Brown illustration in the Independent showing a naked Ariel Sharon biting off the bloodied head of a Palestinian child.
Media awards for abuse of Israel are regarded in the Western democracies as fair game.
Alex Brummer is City Editor of the Daily Mail


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Letter to OECD Beps (Base Erosion and Profit-Shifting) - Recommending Approach to Change Behavior of Multinationals Re Profit Shifting into Low-Tax Countries
Jeffery M. Kadet
University of Washington - School of Law
January 23, 2013
The OECD through its BEPS initiative should strongly recommend to OECD member and non-member countries that they abandon the territorial and deferral systems that they currently use. To replace these systems, they would implement full-inclusion systems under which all foreign income, including profits in foreign subsidiaries, would be currently taxed by each MNE's home country. A foreign tax credit mechanism would prevent double-taxation.
This action would eliminate or significantly reduce the motivation of multinationals to shift profits into tax havens and other low-tax countries. As such, there would be significantly reduced MNE profit-shifting structures that erode the tax bases of all countries and require considerable time and resources of all tax authorities as well as of the multinationals that must create and maintain complicated supply-chain and other tax-motivated structures.
Other benefits include an expanded tax base for all countries, simplification through elimination of home country transfer pricing issues and need for CFC rules, and a more level-playing field competitively both for competition between multinationals headquartered in different countries and for competition between pure domestic companies and multinationals headquartered in that country. And the expanded tax base could allow a reduction in the overall corporate tax rate, a factor that could make the change to this full-inclusion system more politically acceptable.
The basic concept is simple. By being subject to current home-country taxation on its worldwide earnings, a multinational's motivation for complicated structures that shift profits into tax havens from countries where operations, sales and services take place is significantly reduced or eliminated.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 5
Keywords: International Tax Reform, OECD, BEPS, Territorial, Deferral, Full-Inclusion, Worldwide Taxation
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Date posted: March 12, 2013
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by BWW News Desk - Aug 25, 2016
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by BWW News Desk - Aug 24, 2016
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by BWW News Desk - Aug 24, 2016
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Photo Coverage: Working Artists Theatre Project's GREGORIAN Celebrates Opening Night
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by BWW News Desk - Aug 23, 2016
"Thrones! The Musical Parody" sweeps through the Windy City once again this fall at Apollo Theater Chicago (2540 N Lincoln Ave) with a talented ensemble of Chicago up-and-comers bringing the "Game of Thrones" send-up to life. Under the direction of Hannah Todd, the cast of "Thrones! The Musical Parody" includes Caitlyn Cerza, Nick Druzbanski, Madeline Lauzon, Beau Nolen, Victoria Olivier and Christopher Ratliff. This all-Chicago cast combines comedic talents and "knockout vocal harmonies" (Chicago Reader) to bring all six seasons of the HBO hit to the stage, recounting the journey of well-known characters such as Tyrion Lannister, Jon Snow, Cersei Lannister, the Stark family, Daenerys Targaryen and more. Performances for the fall run of "Thrones! The Musical Parody" begin September 15; tickets ($29-$59) are on sale now and can be purchased at ApolloChicago.com or by calling the box office at 773.935.6100. The press performance takes place on September 21. Headshots and imagery can be accessed here. (more...)
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The Theater People Podcast Welcomes PARAMOUR Star Jeremy Kushnier
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Tickets on Sale Next Week for THE SOUND OF MUSIC at Fox Cities Performing Arts Center
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by BWW News Desk - Aug 18, 2016
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by BWW News Desk - Aug 18, 2016
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Maria Rizzo and Rachel Zampelli to Star in THE GULF World Premiere This Fall at Signature Theatre
by BWW News Desk - Aug 17, 2016
Virginia's Tony-Award winning Signature Theatre presents the world premiere of The Gulf by DC playwright Audrey Cefaly. Directed by Signature's Director of New Works Joe Calarco (Signature Theatre's The Flick, Gypsy), The Gulfcontinues Signature Theatre's commitment to producing regional and local premieres of important new plays. The production stars Maria Rizzo (Signature's Gypsy, West Side Story) and Rachel Zampelli (Signature's The Fix, Dying City), and runs September 13 - November 6 in Signature Theatre's intimate ARK Theatre. (more...)
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by Greg Kerestan - Aug 16, 2016
From this famous play sprung the modern sitcom fully-formed, but it's a little darker than you might remember. (more...)
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by Guest Blogger: Alyssa Sileo - Aug 16, 2016
Sometimes you just have to turn to music to tell the story. (more...)
GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE Star Kristen Beth Williams to Lead Lyric Stage's CAMELOT
by BWW News Desk - Aug 16, 2016
Relive the time-honored legend of King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot and the Knights of the Round Table. (more...)
Photo Coverage: SISTER ACT at Mac-Haydn Theatre
by BWW News Desk - Aug 16, 2016
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Avon Players to Launch New Season with ASSASSINS
by BWW News Desk - Aug 15, 2016
Avon Players will aim its spotlights squarely at some of the darker corners of American history as they present Stephen Sondheim's bold musical examination of the murderous mindset, Assassins, running September 9-24. (more...)
BWW Interview: Harrison Meloeny & Michelle Lane of NEXT TO NORMAL at Pico Playhouse
by Cary Ginell - Aug 15, 2016
Occasionally we venture out of the sanctity of Ventura County to see how some of our locally raised theatricians are faring in their acting careers. Today we visit with Harrison Meloeny and Michelle Lane, two performers familiar to Cabrillo Music Theatre audiences (both were in Mary Poppins last year) about a fabulous opportunity to appear in the Pico Playhouse's new production of the Tony Award-winning smash, Next to Normal, in which Michelle will play Diana and Harrison will play Gabe. The show opens August 19 and plays through September 25. (more...)
The Theater People Podcast Welcomes Tony-Winning Producer Kevin McCollum
by Theater People Podcast - Aug 15, 2016
On Monday, August 15, the Theater People podcast welcomes three-time Tony-winning producer Kevin McCollum. Best known for producing Broadway mega-hits RENT, AVENUE Q, and, IN THE HEIGHTS, McCollum is also know for taking chances on smaller shows and shepherding them to Broadway. He brought THE DROWSY CHAPERONE to Broadway in 2006--it would go on to win five Tony Awards--and [TITLE OF SHOW] to Broadway in 2009. (more...)
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by BWW News Desk - Aug 15, 2016
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by TV News Desk - Aug 15, 2016
Just off a run in THE CRUCIBLE on Broadway, Ben Whishaw, also well known for his role as 'Q' in the new James Bond films, is in talks to join Disney's upcoming sequel to the beloved 1964 film, MARY POPPINS RETURNS. (more...)
Photo & Video: Meryl Streep Talks FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS & More in 'TimesTalks'
by Oliver Oliveros - Aug 14, 2016
Moderated by the New York Times' (NYT) chief classical music critic Anthony Tommasini, three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep, who plays the titular role of the tone-deaf operatic soprano Florence Foster Jenkins in the movie of the same name, recently talked about the connection between acting and music; her desire to work on an original theater piece on the Broadway stage, among other things, in 'TimesTalks.' (more...)
Larry Daggett to Headline Fiddlehead Theatre's PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT
by BWW News Desk - Aug 12, 2016
Meg Fofonoff and Stacey Stephens, Producing Artistic Directors of Fiddlehead Theatre Company, today announce the cast and production team for the exclusive Boston premiere of PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT: The Musical. (more...)
SWEENEY TODD Returns to Israel in 2017
by BWW News Desk - Aug 12, 2016
BroadwayWorld has learned that The Tramp Productions and Stuff Like That are to produce an Israeli revival of SWEENEY TODD, the legendary dark musical by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler. (more...)
Single Tickets on Sale Next Month for ASU Gammage's 2016-17 Broadway Season
by BWW News Desk - Aug 12, 2016
Single tickets for ASU Gammage 2016-2017 Desert Schools Broadway Across America/Arizona season including BEAUTIFUL - THE CAROL KING MUSICAL and AN AMERICAN IN PARIS are set to go on sale September, 12 at 10 a.m. at the ASU Gammage box office, asugammage.com and ticketmaster.com. (more...)
Raul Mendez, Hannia Guillen, Priscilla Lopez and More to Lead Nilo Cruz's BATHING IN MOONLIGHT World Premiere at McCarter Theatre Center
by BWW News Desk - Aug 11, 2016
When Father Monroe discovers that Marcela and her Cuban-American family are struggling, he offers a warmth and kindness unlike anything Marcela has ever experienced. Small acts of generosity blossom into love as the lines between vocation and passion begin to blur. McCarter Theatre Center Artistic Director Emily Mann and playwright Nilo Cruz reunite for the first time since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics with this lyrical new play about falling in love and finding a place to call home. (more...)
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY to Open Folger Theatre's 2016-17 Season
by BWW News Desk - Aug 11, 2016
Folger Theatre's 2016/17 season kicks off with an inspired stage adaptation of one of literature's most cherished novels, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. (more...)
We're So in Love! Kelli O'Hara and Will Chase to Star in Roundabout's KISS ME, KATE Benefit Concert
by BWW News Desk - Aug 11, 2016
Roundabout Theatre Company has just announced a one-night only Benefit Concert Reading of Kiss Me, Kate by Sam and Bella Spewack with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, starring Kelli O'Hara and Will Chase. (more...)