Richard B at large

Occasional reports on travels, performances, and experiences, supplemented by digressions

Monday, June 2, 2025

'Andy Warhol in Iran'

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To the Atlas Theater last Saturday night to catch Mosaic Theater Company's 90-minute, no-intermission play, Andy Warhol in Iran . Not ha...
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Revival of 'Gypsy' on Broadway

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I've been very fond of the musical Gypsy but somehow never saw the original production. Jule Styne wrote seven songs for the marvelous a...
Saturday, January 4, 2025

New Year's, Maui, and 'Wicked'

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We've traveled a good deal of the time this past month or so: first, the Taiwan trip at the beginning of November, then to California--C...
Monday, December 9, 2024

The Hills of California

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 If I hadn't just returned from California, and experienced crossing some hills there, I might have reacted differently to the Jez Butte...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Those Damn Dodgers

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In Douglas Wallop's 1954 novel [the date is important], The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant , a Washington Senators fan aims to sell h...
Monday, August 5, 2024

Santa Barbara

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We travelled to Santa Barbara, not for a destination wedding, but the nuptials of the son of a good friend of ours to a lady who hails from....
Sunday, May 26, 2024

Retrying the Hauptmann Kidnap-Murder Case

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  By all accounts, the 1935 trial in Flemington, N.J., of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the murder of celebrated aviator Charles Lindbergh’s...
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RBHoffman
has been in the courts and justice world since walking off Wall St years ago; never looked back (because they weren't gaining on me) and enjoyed most of the ride--even assorted rough spots--spent almost three yrs as Exec Dir of Natl Prison Rape Elimination Commission--just saying it is a conversation stopper; now am consulting for justice improvement and rule of law projects, for a few years mostly overseas and then at American Univ., where I was a Research Assoc. Professor and taught comparative law and justice systems and consulted on caseflow management. Back in the justice system as Victims' Rights Compliance Coordinator for Maryland and then represented victims seeking criminal injuries.compensation before a board and in the state trial and appellate courts.
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