And while I'm giving props to my friends again

I should note that my dear friend and colleague, Jenna Scherer, has started a new blog cataloguing all of her theatre writing for the Boston Herald and the Weekly Dig. It's called The Second Husk.

Cynicism, laughter, the second husk into which the shucked man crawls...

-- Djana Barnes, Nightwood

Jenna sees 3-4 plays per week, so there are always new updates. And amazingly, she still finds new and sarcastically creative things to say about them all, even when she's busting out her third article in a weekend on a Sunday morning when everyone else is walking their dogs or drinking mimosas. She is a trooper. And she's currently looking for a fulltime gig, so if you're in need of a staggeringly brilliant arts writer (she doesn't just write about theatre -- it's just what she does best and most frequently), you should contact her at jenna [dot] scherer [at] gmail.com.

Weirdly accurate cartoon rendering of Jenna Scherer courtesy of artist Jenna Scherer.