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Shadows of theater performers on stage in front of red curtain.

“Shared Beginnings” at the Robidoux Resident Theatre brings past and present into focus for all ages, May 13/14

by Nancy Piercy The Robidoux Resident Theatre (RRT) provides a warm and welcoming environment for creative people of all ages.

The Regular Joe

Letter from the Editor

Welcome to the new Regular Joe. We’re so glad you’re here. The pandemic did a number on many small publications,

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The Regular Joe

Good Bait from the Coltrane Station

I recently acquired a lot of new music, on vinyl and CD. My mother moved out of the house we’d lived
in since 1958, and gave me a lifetime’s collection. The vinyl included some iconic recordings from my
childhood. There are albums from Jonathan Winters, Frank Sinatra, and the Baja Marimba Band, not to
mention Beethoven and Bach.

Legs in black leggings and boots on escalator

Features Shawn Murphy

The Regular Joe

Are Leggings Pants or just underwear with legs?

I myself have a tendency to think that if leggings were really pants they would call them pants, but there are so many people that wear them now, as pants, I have become confused (more so than usual). Has it become socially acceptable to wear, out in public, leg coverings that are really a just thick cousin of panty hose and call them pants? Perhaps…

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The Regular Joe

The Chiropractors of Ancient Greece

For years, I’ve asserted that a poem is not complete until it’s read aloud. I blame it on Aristotle. A poem can sit, in a book, on the shelf, unopened, gathering dust, and eventually die in the used-book bin. Or, it can leap boldly into action, sing and dance, and live forever. ..