Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Chapter Two Beauty And Decay: Blackrock. The opening pages of this chapter describe Stephen's failing attempts to escape from the harsh, "realistic" facts of human life. Stephen is continually pulled down to earth by the sordidness of his environment. Some critics...

WASHINGTON - Last week, an interesting political meeting took place here about one of the more pointless national political battles that have sapped what little strength the Democratic Party retains as a presidential campaign force. At the gathering were six generational alikes from...

We all know about DMC, of the legendary, pioneering Run DMC, but what do we really know about Darryl McDaniels, the man behind the mic? Not much. As a matter of fact, Darryl knew about DMC the artist, but, like everyone else, he didn’t really...

Marsha Mason has been growing herbs on an organic farm in northern New Mexico for a decade, juggling the demands of the land with her big-city commitments on stage and screen.Now she's trying to sell the 250-acre, riverside property. She plans to buy something close...

Chapter Two is being heralded as a deepening of Neil Simon's art. It is certainly every bit as much deepening as it is art. The play is admittedly based on Neil Simon's and Marsha Mason's courtship and marriage. George Schneider, a novelist, has lost his beloved wife from cancer; Jennie Malone is an actress who has lost a rather less beloved husband by divorce. Pimping for George is his younger brother, Leo, a theatrical agent; pimping for Jennie is her chum Faye, a queen of the soaps. ...