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Friday, October 27, 2017 Vol. 10 No. 88
Beer, Water & Fire, ‘Cheers’ OktoberForest Highlights Source of Beer’s Main Ingredient By Desert Star Staff FORT COLLINS, Colo. – October means beer festivals in many corners of the globe, and in Colorado several local breweries have banded with The Nature Conservancy to create OktoberForest (Not October Fest), a campaign to help keep the state’s
water supplies clean. Corey Odell, sustainability coordinator for the Odell Brewing Co., has been organizing events in the company’s Fort Collins tap room to help beer fans see the critical link between trees and their beloved porters, IPAs and pilsners.
“Forest health equates to water quality, and water quality equates to good beer,” she states. “Protecting the forest is, of course, more than just about beer. It’s also a great place for anyone to interact with nature.” Odell says America’s forests provide more than
By Desert Star Staff Rancho Mirage, CA The Desert Rose Playhouse, the Coachella Valley’s LGBTQ+ Stage Company, will present TIME SQUARE ANGEL by Charles Busch, A Musical Pastiche, opening Friday, November 24, 2017, for a four-week run. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM and Sundays at 2 PM, through December 17, 2017. Night Club star, Irish O’Flanagan, a self-centered, penny-pinching, night club singer, is visited by her guardian angel Albert and we are off on a whirlwind tour of Irish’s life with laughs, songs, and heart-warming moments.
Busch’s show combines elements of A Christmas Carol and It’s a Wonderful Life with his favorite 1940’s movies and various musical numbers of the season. Busch’s plays THE DIVINE SISTER and VAMPIRE LESBIANS OF SODOM/COMA are remembered by Desert Rose Playhouse audiences from their fun-filled and exotic performances on our stage. Award-winning DRP company member Loren Freeman stars as Irish with DRP Artistic Associate Robbie Wayne playing Albert and choreographing the musical numbers. The cast includes DRP veterans Melanie Blue, Cat Lyn Day, Terry Huber,
Michael Pacas, and Kam Sisco. Actors James Owens, Karen Schmitt, and Ian Tang make their DRP debuts. Founding Artistic Director Jim Strait directs and designs the production. Joel Baker is the Musical Director. Mark Demry is the Costumer and awardwinner Toni Molano designs the wigs. The legendary Phil Murphy is designing the lights for his 49th DRP Production! The Desert Rose Playhouse is a project of Desert Rose Productions, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. TIME SQUARE ANGEL continues Desert Rose Productions’ mission to
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half of the nation’s drinking water, and about 95 percent of beer is actually pure H2O. Odell says forests help shade streams, lakes, and snow from evaporation, and are efficient at filtering water. She points out larger and more frequent wildfires have become the biggest threats
to watersheds in Colorado and across the West. Jason Lawhon, forest restoration and fire program director for The Nature Conservancy in Colorado, says the nation’s 10 worst fire years have all come since Continues on Page 7
Transgender people in Massachusetts say now is the time to double-down on state LGBTQ protections, as the Trump administration is moving to repeal them at the federal level. (Freedom For All Americans).