Ask Aunt Steph is a bi-monthly advice column by Stephanie Baffone, LPCMH, NCC, a licensed, board-certified mental health therapist, freelance writer and beloved aunt to 41 nieces and nephews.
“Time Stands Still” refers to photographs – mind-etching photographs exhibiting the carnage and degradation of war in a single frame. Admittedly Aisle Say is a “let's get to the next laugh” musical theater junkie, but this incisively written and superbly acted production is one of the most thought-provoking experiences in recent memory.
In 1956 upstart composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim appealed to director/ choreographer Jerome Robbins to allow him to do both words and music to “West Side Story.” Robbins chose Bernstein for the music but allowed Sondheim the lyrics, owing to the latter’s tutelage under Oscar Hammerstein. That glittering Broadway debut instilled in Sondheim complete power over his future.
Philosophers tell us there are five stages of grief: denial/isolation, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
Jim Baker is winding down his tenure as the city’s first three-term mayor. His legacy may be more about his rage than the Riverfront; inflammatory eloquence rather than The Queen; rhetorical convulsions rather than The Plan for Change that netted $80 million from the collection of delinquent taxes and parking tickets.
First State Ballet Theatre is in the midst of its most ambitious season of any ballet company in the history of our state. 10 productions will be staged in seven venues in all three counties.
“Damn Yankees” was born in the ‘50s, the golden age of musical theater; when winning a Tony actually meant something. The golden age was the reason dear sister Liz and I each night would be lullabied by Broadway with tunes drifting upstairs from Dad’s phonograph.
If there is one given in life, it is that love changes everything.
It is also the title of one of the most beautiful and haunting tunes ever written by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and the underlying theme of “Aspects of Love,” opening the Walnut Street Theatre's 203rd season.
Ask Aunt Steph is a bi-monthly advice column by Stephanie Baffone, LPCMH, NCC, a licensed, board-certified mental health therapist, freelance writer and beloved aunt to 41 nieces and nephews.
Michele Hermann, the vice mayor of Nemours, France was recently feted at a reception at Nemours Mansion, indubitably the most spectacular pied-á-terre in the state. Her city has been designated Wilmington’s newest “Sister City.”
Shortly after the national fiscal downturn in 2008, it seemed that arts funding might be severely cut or even eliminated in Delaware. A group of statewide arts leaders began meeting to prepare for a joint advocacy effort to reach key state legislators.
Cole Porter's single greatest contribution to the "pop culture" of 1934 may well be the playfully allusive “You're The Top” from "Anything Goes." It was a catalog of topical and cultural events, products, famous people, literature.
Ask Aunt Steph is a bi-monthly advice column by Stephanie Baffone, LPCMH, NCC, a licensed, board-certified mental health therapist, freelance writer and beloved aunt to 41 nieces and nephews.
Ask Aunt Steph is a bi-monthly advice column by Stephanie Baffone, LPCMH, NCC, a licensed, board-certified mental health therapist, freelance writer and beloved aunt to 41 nieces and nephews.
Following in the footsteps of her paternal grandmother, the former neighborhood consigliera (advisor) she is often found holding court with family, friends and clients seeking advice on life, love and loss. “Aunt Steph” lends her talents to answer reader’s questions, too.
I was on the porch reading the Sunday paper last week when the most soothing and mellifluous voice wafted in from the TV room. The song was West Side Story's “Somewhere.”
Ask Aunt Steph is a bi-monthly advice column by Stephanie Baffone, LPCMH, NCC, a licensed, board-certified mental health therapist, freelance writer and beloved aunt to 41 nieces and nephews.
Following in the footsteps of her paternal grandmother, the former neighborhood consigliera (advisor) she is often found holding court with family, friends and clients seeking advice on life, love and loss. “Aunt Steph” lends her talents to answer reader’s questions, too.
U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) today called on Congress and the White House to include the Save As You Go mechanism in its negotiations to ensure that Washington can’t run away from making the hard choices that need to be made on our dangerous annual deficits and staggering national debt.
As readers over the past four years gratefully acknowledge, both public concern and topicality are paramount to our mission here at Aisle Say. Thereby and therefore and without furthering ados, we wish to give the readers a forum to express their opinions.
In the world of politics, the charming sobriquet of "ladies man" has gone from player to predator.
The Grand's mantra in 2011-2012 season is to bring world-class entertainment to Wilmington while strengthening local arts and community partnerships.
Ask Aunt Steph is a bi-monthly advice column by Stephanie Baffone, LPCMH, NCC, a licensed, board-certified mental health therapist, freelance writer and beloved aunt to 41 nieces and nephews.
Ask Aunt Steph is a bi-monthly advice column by Stephanie Baffone, LPCMH, NCC, a licensed, board-certified mental health therapist, freelance writer and beloved aunt to 40 nieces and nephews.
