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HAPPY MOUTH — July & August 2004

HAPPY MOUTH — July & August 2004

Because of schedule madness, the members of the supper club weren’t able to meet during July. So we decided to do the first-ever “Happy Mouth Double-Header” in August. So, in August, we met for lunch, a mid-afternoon activity, and dinner. It was a blast! Chuck…

HAPPY MOUTH — November 2004

HAPPY MOUTH — November 2004

On November 17th, a group of us (Wendy, Ted, Jay, John, Wendy B, Holly, Ron, Tracy, and Drew) met for the monthly HAPPY MOUTH outing. This month was Ron’s first chance to select the restaurant, and he chose UPSTAR CROW near Newport on the Levee.…

HAPPY MOUTH — November 2005

HAPPY MOUTH — November 2005

On Wednesday, November 30, 2005 members of the HAPPY MOUTH SUPPER CLUB gathered for Ron’s selection of VITO’S CAFE in Highland Heights Kentucky.

Eight of us — Ted, Tracy, Wendy B., Ron, Robin, David, Andrew, and guest Jeffrey enjoyed the food and ambiance of the place very much. Kevin, our waiter, was very entertaining and a good singer to boot. You see, it seems that most (if not all) of Vito’s front-of-house staff sing during service. Including Vito, who was generous enough to sing Ron’s request of Volare. The Christmas melody that they sang as a group was spirited and fun.

A good time was had by all! Another successful Happy Mouth.

DINNER 6: Friday, January 6, 2006

DINNER 6: Friday, January 6, 2006

Tonight was a busy night and a lot of fun. After a full work day, I headed to a local tavern called Holy Grail where I was meeting my old boss (he just retired), two colleagues, and their spouses for drinks. Because I got there…

DINNER 15: Sunday, January 15, 2006

DINNER 15: Sunday, January 15, 2006

This evening, Wendy & I met Ted, Ginny, and Arthur at Pompilio’s in Newport Kentucky to celebrate Arthur’s birthday. Pompilio’s is a well-known institution in the city, specializing in southern Italian cooking and red sauce. We enjoyed our meals very much — Drew got tortellini…

DINNER 21: Saturday, January 21, 2006

DINNER 21: Saturday, January 21, 2006

On Saturday night, Wendy & I went to see Falcon Theater‘s production of KEELY & DU at the Monmouth Theater in Newport Kentucky.

We drove down to Newport a little early to eat at LaRosa’s, a Cincinnati-based Italian restaurant. Wendy enjoyed her JoJo’s Salad — a green salad with diced roma tomatoes, bacon, croutons, and a creamy garlic dressing, and a crock of French Onion Soup. Drew had a green salad (bleu cheese dressing) and a steak hoagie just the way he likes it — mushroom sauce, grilled mushrooms, onions, and cheese.

The show, KEELY & DU, was well-performed. It is a challenging play about abortion and the different perspectives about the issue.

Synopsis: With the Partial Birth Abortion Act fast-tracking its way through Congress and an unabashedly pro-life president aggressively touting ultraconservative judges for the nation’s highest courts, new plays about a woman’s right to an abortion are both timely and necessary. In Jane Martin’s passionate and paranoid thriller Keely & Du, Keely, a pregnant working-class woman in her second trimester, is taken captive by bumbling members of the scurrilous “Christian” organization Operation Retrieval, whose agenda is to forcibly prevent women from aborting their pregnancies by denying them access to the outside world. Du and Walter are her captors, whose actions are all the more infamous as they knowingly force Keely to nurture a fetus which came about through rape. Predictably, Keely and Du develop a porous love-hate relationship, with each tiptoeing toward mutual empathy, challenging the various tactics to change Keely’s mind.

 

DINNER 24: Tuesday, January 24, 2006

DINNER 24: Tuesday, January 24, 2006

This evening, Angel, one of the castmembers of the show I’m directing (DINNER WITH FRIENDS for Falcon Theater), and I met for a dinner of Indian food at AMBAR INDIA in Clifton, very near where we both work and close to our rehearsal space. We enjoyed…