MOMIX at CSUC!

MOMIX is coming to Laxson Auditorium Tues. Oct. 28th! I've seen this talented troupe twice at Chico State, and each time I'm in awe of their creativity and physical feats. Definitely a show worth checking out, and appropriate for any age level. According to their promo, "For 20 years Momix has been celebrated for its ability to conjure up a world of surrealist images, using props, light, shadow, humor and the human body." I just called the CSUC Box Office (530-898-6333), and there are still tickets available for this visual/sensory delight. I think Chico Performances has done a fabulous job bringing cutting-edge entertainment to Chico! Click here to view a sample video (which doesn't do justice to watching the show live, naturally).

Memory Walk

MANY THANKS for everyone who supported my mom (Margaret) and me and our Soroptimist International of Chico Team in last weekend's 2008 Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk in Bidwell Park. It was a great event and such a worthy cause. Click here to see more photos of this annual event, which gets bigger and better every year!

Ballotpedia

Have you seen the new "Ballotpedia" web site yet? The site allows you to click on any state on the map graphic to get information about ballot measures and initiatives prior to the election. Click here to view the California site. In the tradition of Wikipedia, Ballotpedia is "a free, collaborative, online encyclopedia (which) focuses on ballots, ballot measures, ballot access for initiatives and candidates, petition drives, the supporters and opponents of initiatives and, in general, all things ballot." Also like Wikipedia, anyone is welcome to register and contribute information. According to the site's editing policies and guidelines, "Views should be represented without bias." (Yeah right...we're talking politics here, right?) : )

Happy Birthday Groucho!

Julius Henry Marx (later known as "Groucho") would have been 118 years old today. Did you know his early ambition was to be a doctor? However, family finances forced him to leave school at age 12. Groucho and his four brothers started their careers in New York City as a vaudeville singing group, "The Four Nightingales." Gummo left the act to become a real estate agent before the boys hit the big time in the movies. Zeppo (whom I always found to be curiously attractive--see photo-- considering the gene pool) became a theatrical agent after "Duck Soup" in 1933. But Groucho, Harpo (my personal favorite) and Chico (originally "Chicko," due to his reputation as a ladies man!) went on to make 15 feature films, entertaining millions to this day. Interesting note: According to Wikipedia, a guest on Groucho's quiz show You Bet Your Life told the quizmaster she came from Chico, California and Groucho responded that he had a brother named "Cheek-oh." Happy Birthday, Groucho! (Click here to watch a rare clip of Harpo being "interviewed" on the Today Show in 1961. Click here to read a fascinating and revealing transcript of Zeppo's final interview from 1979.)