I’ll cut to the chase: the Speakeasy production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is excellent, worth your time, your money, your attention. The book the play is based on tells the story through the narrator Christopher Boone, a 15 year-old boy on the Autism spectrum. He’s verbal and good at…
The Boston Globe just published my essay about tennis in their Connections column. If the timing of this seems crazily off, it’s because the contents of this post (and more!) first appeared in my monthly email newsletter in August. If you subscribe, you can get more writings like this delivered straight to your inbox and not miss…
We had a delightful visit to Montreal a few weekends ago. It was the 150th birthday of Canada and 375th birthday of Montreal so there were lots of street performances and random stuff going on. Circus performances were held around the city and they ranged from amazing to amazingly weird. That photo of the people…
Our family travels to Toronto semi-regularly and as the kids have aged, we’ve gone from patronizing Ontario Place and the Ontario Science Center, to the ROM and Casa Loma. This summer of 2017, we went to the Art Gallery of Ontario for the first time in a few years (possibly the first time for the…
I believe Anton Chekhov wrote that if you introduce the idea of a sky diving company in the first Act, someone better be jumping out of a plane before the end of the play. With a title like Ripcord, I don’t think I’m spoiling anything about David Lindsay-Abaire’s latest play, a 90 minute comedy (plus…
Work on the dismantling of Zervas continues. From January 23, a shot of the playground equipment with swings removed. This photo is looking west from Cold Spring Park and the building behind the swing set is the modular at the end of the Kindergarten hall (you can see the original brick building on the right…
Well, maybe someone is reading this blog or (more likely) they were planning on cutting holes in the fence in the first place. In any case, as you can see, there are now easier sight lines between Beethoven and Beacon. Meanwhile, here’s a view from Cold Spring Park showing how the fence is closed off…
The fence around the Zervas building site has gone up. What surprised me is that it’s right against the street — it encompasses what used to be the sidewalk. I wonder if there’s a safety issue here. I saw a jogger in the road on the south side of Beacon St. Also, for drivers it’s…
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Dear Jack Chengs, I’m not currently looking for a software job in Southern California. Are you? If so, you may want to redirect that Monster job search listing to your own e-mail. Jack Cheng in the Midwest, please thank your friends for all the invitations to church potlucks. I will be unable to attend. Similarly…
Jack Cheng, PhD 