OCCUPY WCBE.

OCCUPY WCBE.             We started this morning, at 6:00, the WCBE Fall On-Air Fund Drive. WHY?  Because WCBE is Listener-Supported. Because 90.5 FM broadcasts as a Public, Non-Commercial station as licensed by the FCC. Because the content WCBE broadcasts, fresh-daily, programs our listeners love… Morning Edition, Fresh Air, All Things Considered, and more… these are [...]

Simply Living Members…Meet Available Light Theatre

Here these  two organizations share many values in the town they live in, in the town where they do business.  They both promote a sustainable model of non-consumerism. They both insist on supporting locally owned & operated enterprise. And they communicate their respective missions through compassion. I’ve posted about Available Light Theatre before, in February.  [...]

Matt Slaybaugh is my friend, and he asks me to…

…help him out.  By helping Matt Slaybaugh, he means helping introduce new friends to his Available Light Theatre.  You’ve heard of Available Light, yes? No? Well, it’s a Columbus collective of artists; writers, actors, directors,  lighting/sound/decor/costume artists who have a passion for the art and presentation of story telling & performance. They pursue their art [...]

An Unusual Reason To Believe In Public Radio

This is the time of year when many National Public Radio member stations interrupt regularly scheduled programs in order to appeal to their listeners to phone in and donate.  This is because a major funding source for public (non-commercial) broadcasters is the listeners themselves, as in the phrase, “Listener-Supported Radio.”  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [...]

Morning Fiddle

Morning Fiddle rusty maple leaves fall in dawn light as the bow drones an F-sharp wail

A Change In Direction: Where Doth Thou Blog?

After stewing periodically for my lack of posts, I decided to fearlessly compose and expose readers to my random themes about…blogging, and what inspirations might arise after a deliberate session of meditation. I believe I’ll change the direction of what has become an infertile Orange Acorn. Some bloggers post regularly, within a structure, with an [...]

Tweet-Up this Saturday, January 10

Yes, we’re tweetin’-up at the Tip Top Kitchen & Cocktails this Saturday evening, 5:50-7:30, for some of downtown Columbus’ most imaginative edibles & highballs.   You know the Tip Top, don’t ya? 73 East Gay Street, one-third of the troika of bistros that include Betty’s and Surly Girl.  Pot roast, sweet potato fries, warm spiked [...]

Series of Infinite Regressions, or, How I Enjoyed SYNECDOCHE NY

Still trying to get my mind back on a linear track after watching Charlie Kaufman’s SYNECDOCHE NY at the Gateway Cinema last night. First, it’s without any doubt, the slowest pace of a film I can recall ever experiencing. Altho slightly over 2-hours, we entered the theater Nov. 28, and as the closing credits rolled [...]

Our Town 2008

Hello, visitors to Jim Coe’s Orange Acorn blog. Just finished a 4-performance run of Our Town, a Young Isaac presentation of the Thornton Wilder classic. The theater was intimate (470 capacity), the play was sensitively directed by Ian Short and produced by Matt Slaybaugh, both of Available Light Theater of Columbus, OH.  And over a [...]