By David Fortier
Come Sunday morning, Mary and I will have attended the second Bristol Boys and Girls Club gala, another terrific evening with a short program that put kids front and center. And the music was great. I am putting together a short article with photos that I hope will capture some of the fun.
Favorite family texts during the week featured the grandkids, one of whom got a shot at DJ’ing for WPKN-89.5 on the FM dial at a fundraiser. Not a bad gig for a 3-year-old. Then, there is another text with a quip about some sneakers Mary bought for him.
Parent: “You are going to have to tell Gaga (Mary’s grandma name) thank you.”
Grandchild (also, 3-years-old and not the DJ): “Yeah, they are coming in real handy.”
Later, parent to Mary and me: “Who says that? No one around here does.”
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Two Fridays ago, Mary and I attended another Hartford Stage production, this one Shakespeare’s’ “A Winter’s Tale.” As always, Hartford Stage provided a wonderful drama, set in the early 1900’s, with a set that captures the mood and tone in what I can only call magical.
The play comes late in the Shakespearean opus, and while it is a comedy the first half is nothing less than tragic—so if you can get out to see it, strap yourself in.
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Reading/listening this week includes another favorite, On the Media with its latest three segments under the title, “Rupert. Logan. Clarence.” The first two segments cover Rupert Murdock and his media empire. The final one gets into some deep background on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
In “Fox News Settles the Defamation Suit Brought by Dominion Voting Systems,” Jim Rutenburg, writer-at-large for the New York Times and its Sunday magazine, discusses the Dominion lawsuit settlement and what might be next for Fox News. Click here.
In “The Real-Life Media Moguls That Inspired the TV Show Succession,” Professor of television and film at Syracuse University Robert Thompson discusses the “Succession” tv series, which some people see as a thinly veiled Murdock family intrigue, and what can be learned about real-life power from fiction. Click here.
In “Clarence Thomas’ Unshaken Belief in Big Money,” Corey Robin, political science professor at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, discusses lessons that might be learned from the latest controversy involving Thomas. Click here.
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Looking forward to coming week, the city finance board is finishing its annual budget deliberations and will be voting this week, Tuesday. From there the budget, if approved, will come before the joint board meeting of the finance board and city council next week.
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Enjoy!
“Come Sunday morning” is intended to be a weekly review, a recounting of the past week and an anticipation of week to come. Among its features will be reviews of old and new books, sharing of favorite podcasts, some family news, Bristol events and happenings and issues surrounding education, work and community journalism. He can be reached at dfortier@bristoledition.org.
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