It’s hard not to like The Sound of Music. Rogers and Hammerstein’s instantly recognizable score has inundated popular culture with its catchy melodies and lighthearted joy since its Broadway debut in 1959 and become a musical theater repertoire juggernaut after its 1965 movie debut. Sometimes tunes like “My Favorite Things,” “Do-Re-Mi,” “Climb Every Mountain” and […]
James Gadd
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SpongeBob Soaks Up the Limelight
Stephen Hillenburg attended what was then Humboldt State University in the early 1980s, about a decade before I did. He had a more impressive major than myself: natural resource planning and interpretation, better known as NRPI (all the formidable science degrees on that campus seem to have acronyms) with an emphasis in marine biology. But […]