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  • Shoes: comfort vs looks

    Elizabeth Youngman-Westlphal|Updated Sep 8, 2021

    Recently my husband asked me if my new pink lace ballet slippers were “comfortable?” Blink. Blink. “Pardon me?” I replied. As you might imagine, I am still laughing myself into hiccups. Was there ever a pair of pretty lady’s shoes designed for comfort? Certainly, none I ever bought. Actually, thinking back, I forgot. There were two times. The first time I purchased sensible footwear was when I moved from California to work in New Jersey. Just days before a record snowfall in January 1995, I bought a pair of black-lac...

  • Rocking out at The Old Globe

    Elizabeth Youngman-Westlphal, Special to The Village News|Updated Oct 8, 2018

    Yes, the "Heart of Rock and Roll" is the music! Toe tapping, knee slapping, fist pumping, heart-throbbing music fever. It's the steady beat that drives the story in this musical comedy love story. Huey Lewis' music is jubilantly rhythmic, transporting the show to another galaxy. Faced with his hardest decision to date, Bobby (Matt Doyle) puts his rock and roll dreams away and takes a grown-up job. After two years working at the Stone Box Company as a salesman, Bobby still...

  • Here we go again and again

    Elizabeth Youngman-Westlphal, Special to the Village News|Updated Sep 17, 2018

    Imagine being pulled through the television screen and plopped into the middle of your favorite program. That is what it feels like when attending "Mamma Mia" at the fashionably remodeled Welk Resort Theatre on Champagne Boulevard north of Escondido. Director Larry Raben is a local star. One of the reasons is he cleverly invites only the finest professionals into his productions. Again, Raben has cornered the brilliant choreographer Karl Warden who reshaped "Newsies" last...

  • 'A Christmas Carol

    Elizabeth Youngman-Westlphal|Updated Dec 14, 2017

    Yeah, just when you think "Oh no, not another version of 'A Christmas Carole'" along comes Cygnet Theatre doing a change up on a classic Dicken's tale. It is fresh and fun-tastic! Hurray for them. And lucky us! 'Cause for one thing, it is a musical. And second, there is a piano player on stage. Musical director Patrick Marion is visible throughout. In addition to his masterful musicology, he inserts a bit of whimsy along the way to London on Christmas Eve, 1843. Don't we all...