http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/good_night_sweet_joe Apparently, Joe Adcock (theater critic at the PI for a grazillion years) is retiring. Emails to his address bounce back with the following: I will be out of the office until Tuesday, May 27, which will be my last day of work. As of Wednesday, May 28, I will have retired. Because of a hiring freeze at the PI, nobody will replace Mr. Adcock. "We'll continue to cover theater vigorously," said arts editor Chris Beringer, "with freelancers." Which is to say, less vigorously than before. It's funny—just yesterday on Slog, I was admiring these two unmistakably Adcockean sentences, from a... Copyright 2008 Wed, 21 May 2008 12:28:55 -0800 Wed, 21 May 2008 22:07:43 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Well, it's the end of an era. My favorite JoeView: "The characters walk and talk, as do the actors."

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