Calendar Girls’: a totally unbiased review

Kudos to Beaumont Community Players for the funny and heartwarming “Calendar Girls.” An excellent ensemble had the packed audience laughing on opening night and there were a few sniffles as well. I review most of the plays I see, and I write this one with the disclaimer that my significant other, Ramona Young, is in …

Klimt and the Spanish Flu

This is the first in a three-part series of stories in ISSUE magazine that focus on notable artists who died in 1918 as a result of the Spanish flu pandemic. Sure, I admit that the flu is just a reason to do a couple of pieces about interesting artists (and three constitutes a seres, so …

‘Morphogenesis’

My latest artist profile for ISSUE magazine featured artists Anna Myers and Scarlett Blanchard who were hard at work on their show "Morphogenesis" which opened Oct.6 at The Art Studio, Inc. The show is on display through Oct. 26. I met them at the beginning of September in the printmaking lab at Lamar University where …

Review: No lie — ‘Curious Incident’ honestly excels

When Christopher John Francis Boone discovers Wellington’s body, he is immediately the prime suspect. But he is innocent and sets out to find the real killer. However, this is not a typical noir detective story. Christopher is a 15-year-old boy, clearly on the Autism spectrum although that is never defined, for whom the truth is …

The AP Stylebook: every reporter’s friend

The following was originally published on the University Press staff blog "From the Newsroom" The look of a newsroom varies according to the organization. Some are bright, open rooms, some are dingy cubicles and some are a mixture of the two. The computers may be PCs or Macs, the layouts may be created in QuarkXpress …

Droning on

An interesting new technology shift that is creeping into journalism is the use of drone photography. On Oct. 3, the new Lamar University student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists hosted Guiseppe Barranco, Beaumont Enterprise photo editor, to demonstrate the process. Barranco has been using the drones for around six months after getting licensed. …