A reflection from Barnabite priest Umberto Palma Orellana The miners have become a good brand a brand everybody wants to register for their own benefit and exploitation Their lives those too human existences haven rsquo t mattered before they don rsquo t now and won rsquo t in the future eith

Believe it or not I m a member of a theater company the Labyrinth Theater Company who I first got to know when they asked me to help them with a play called The Last Days of Judas Iscariot written by Stephen Adly Guirgis and produced at nbsp New York s nbsp Public Theater in 2004 nbsp In an

nbsp nbsp nbsp The plants in my house that are still alive thrive in an atmosphere of inattention High maintenance plants don rsquo t last long here My plants tend to be more hearty than beautiful They sit in their mismatched pots soaking in sunshine through the windows grateful for the occ

Oct. 31 is the feast of a remarkable Catholic brother, St. Alphonsus Rodríguez, the humble Jesuit porter of Majorca.

One needn rsquo t be interested in painting mining or things British to enjoy ldquo The Pitmen Painters rdquo an often funny and at times ferociously affecting new play on Broadway at the Samuel J Friedman Theater The play was written by Lee Hall whose screenplay and book for ldquo Billy El

I don t usually link to articles that are not available online but these two pieces from The New York Review of Books are very much worthwhile even if you have to hoof it to the library The first is a review of Fintan O Toole s Ship of Fools How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger wh