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	<description>Poetics in Live Performance</description>
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		<title>A Great Black Moment in White House History: May I Touch Your Hair?</title>
		<link>http://unitedstage.com/2012/02/13/a-great-black-moment-in-white-house-history-may-i-touch-your-hair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David W. Boles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A great bit of human drama unfolded in the White House last week and it was a simple and stunning moment that proved the humanity of our current president and the unfettered charm and inquisitiveness of an eager mind.  Barack &#8230; <a href="http://unitedstage.com/2012/02/13/a-great-black-moment-in-white-house-history-may-i-touch-your-hair/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unitedstage.com&amp;blog=13477609&amp;post=696&amp;subd=ustage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Glee Review!</title>
		<link>http://unitedstage.com/2012/02/06/the-glee-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Davidescu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In May of 2009, the life of my wife and I changed with the early premiere of the show Glee on Fox. We were both intrigued for different reasons. Elizabeth liked the idea of a show about people in a &#8230; <a href="http://unitedstage.com/2012/02/06/the-glee-review/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unitedstage.com&amp;blog=13477609&amp;post=691&amp;subd=ustage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drinking Donkey Semen: How Goodness Declines into Dramatic Satire and Animated Cynicism</title>
		<link>http://unitedstage.com/2012/01/30/drinking-donkey-semen-how-goodness-declines-into-dramatic-satire-and-animated-cynicism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David W. Boles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not one for mocking and cruelly kidding around with people.  Sarcasm has been misunderstood and misinterpreted too many times by well-intentioned people who then land in large vats of trouble dealing with the aftereffects of a failed sense of &#8230; <a href="http://unitedstage.com/2012/01/30/drinking-donkey-semen-how-goodness-declines-into-dramatic-satire-and-animated-cynicism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unitedstage.com&amp;blog=13477609&amp;post=687&amp;subd=ustage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The VTech Learning Sit to Stand Walker Review</title>
		<link>http://unitedstage.com/2012/01/23/the-vtech-learning-sit-to-stand-walker-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Davidescu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before really getting into this review I would like to state that it took awhile for my wife and I to even agree on the VTech Learning Sit to Stand Walker as the tool we would use to help our &#8230; <a href="http://unitedstage.com/2012/01/23/the-vtech-learning-sit-to-stand-walker-review/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unitedstage.com&amp;blog=13477609&amp;post=681&amp;subd=ustage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mac Wellman&#8217;s Free CUNY MFA</title>
		<link>http://unitedstage.com/2012/01/05/mac-wellmans-free-cuny-mfa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David W. Boles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Playwright Mac Wellman has an interesting idea:  Give CUNY students a tuition-free Master of Fine Arts degree to allow them to study the Arts without going deep into debt. Mac wants these students to learn how they construct the world &#8230; <a href="http://unitedstage.com/2012/01/05/mac-wellmans-free-cuny-mfa/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unitedstage.com&amp;blog=13477609&amp;post=676&amp;subd=ustage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elvis Costello Does Not Want You to Buy His Album</title>
		<link>http://unitedstage.com/2011/12/19/elvis-costello-does-not-want-you-to-buy-his-album/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Davidescu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Generally speaking, when a musician puts in dozens of hours of work into writing, practicing, and then laying down the tracks on a new album, they want to do what they can to help push album sales &#8212; if they &#8230; <a href="http://unitedstage.com/2011/12/19/elvis-costello-does-not-want-you-to-buy-his-album/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unitedstage.com&amp;blog=13477609&amp;post=669&amp;subd=ustage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Overcoming a Cruel Aesthetic</title>
		<link>http://unitedstage.com/2011/12/12/overcoming-a-cruel-aesthetic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David W. Boles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, there is no place lower to go than the depths of a tasteless, public, aesthetic parading itself on the paving stones of public discourse as an ingenious iteration of inspiration &#8212; when the idea is really nothing more than &#8230; <a href="http://unitedstage.com/2011/12/12/overcoming-a-cruel-aesthetic/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unitedstage.com&amp;blog=13477609&amp;post=667&amp;subd=ustage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Genesis of Wisdom</title>
		<link>http://unitedstage.com/2011/11/28/the-genesis-of-wisdom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David W. Boles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do we become wise?  Is wisdom a gift, or is wisdom something practiced and acquired?  Does wisdom know any age?  Can a five-year-old child ever be wiser than someone who has lived 85 years? We arrive at wisdom by &#8230; <a href="http://unitedstage.com/2011/11/28/the-genesis-of-wisdom/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unitedstage.com&amp;blog=13477609&amp;post=664&amp;subd=ustage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Julie Taymor as The Goat</title>
		<link>http://unitedstage.com/2011/11/21/julie-taymor-as-the-goat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David W. Boles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past, I have written here in The United Stage of America about &#8220;On Not Becoming the Goat&#8221; &#8211; The Goat is usually the least experienced person on the show in an important position and, unfortunately, that usually means the author &#8230; <a href="http://unitedstage.com/2011/11/21/julie-taymor-as-the-goat/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unitedstage.com&amp;blog=13477609&amp;post=661&amp;subd=ustage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Speech Patterns of Psychopaths</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Davidescu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life, generally speaking, is nothing like the comics or movies when it comes to criminal activity. Whether it is Batman or Spiderman or any other hero, criminals are ultimately fairly traceable and every crime can be solved &#8212; and criminals &#8230; <a href="http://unitedstage.com/2011/11/14/the-speech-patterns-of-psychopaths/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unitedstage.com&amp;blog=13477609&amp;post=654&amp;subd=ustage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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