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Barry Wisdom
Age49 years old GenderMale OccupationFreelance Public Relations/Marketing Professional | Writer/Photographer NeighborhoodGreater Sacramento |
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About MeOnly other Sacramento natives would have even heard of all of the now-defunct local publications that featured my byline before I earned my degree in Journalism/Theater at California State University, Sacramento. Since then, I've alternated between working in public relations (for a theater company, a five-star cruise line, and a private university), and arts-and-entertainment journalism (for a gaggle of Northern California newspapers and magazines). All the while, I've been open to freelance opportunities at the computer keyboard and behind the lens. As a Paladin of photography ("Have Nikon, Will Travel"), I've shot fashion events for such magazines as seventeen and Teen Vogue, and covered a diverse lineup of personal appearances ranging from Dale Earnhardt Jr. to Sarah Ferguson. In addition to covering theater for regional print publications, including the Los Angeles-based Back Stage, I currently contribute to such online entities as Sacramento Press and Examiner.com. |
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photographs by Barry Wisdom / Each year, B Street Theatre Producing Director Buck Busfield and his consiglieri head to the Humana Festival of New America Plays in Louisville, Ky., to check out the freshest and fiercest that U.S. playwrights have to offer. At 2011's festival, among the works at which Busfield took aim was A. Rey Pamatmat's "Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them." The drama concerns three kids: 16-year-old Kenny and his 12-year-old sister Edith, and their friend Benji. Kenny and Edith are "all but abandoned on a farm in remotest Middle America," but the siblings care for each other with more devotion than offered by their parents. As Benji and Kenny's relationship evolve
photographs by Barry Wisdom / The volume wasn't the only thing turned to "11" the evening of May 4, as an off-the-dial number of revel-hungry music lovers descended on Cesar Chavez Park for the 2012 Concerts in the Park season opener. Some 6,300 men, women and children – a record for the 21-year-old free, all-ages concert series – filled the downtown Sacramento venue to celebrate the River City's unofficial summer kick-off. Local musician and erstwhile emcee Danny Secretion hosted the Downtown Sacramento Partnership-sponsored event, offering loving introductions to The Storytellers, Island of Black and White, and Arden Park Roots. The Storytellers, described on the DSP website as a
photographs by Barry Wisdom / The B Street Theatre, best known as a new-works playhouse that specializes in staging cozy, serio-comedies of quiet quirkiness, takes an early summer vacation from the subtle in its West Coast premiere of Kate Fodor’s “Rx.” A satire on America’s never-ending quest for pharmaceutical solutions that’ll cure what ails ya, “Rx,” which plays April 29 through June 10, 2012, is a high-energy, medicinal hilarity dispensary that guarantees relief from overwrought, overdone dramas. Buck Busfield directs the farcical, physical, frenetically paced production that is bold and brassy, with comically exaggerated huffing and puffing, punching and puking, hugging and hum
photographs by Barry Wisdom / Go ahead and Google “Hansel and Gretel,” and nearly 200,000 results will pop up – results that feature such headlines as: “a tale of childhood terror”; “maternal cannibalism”; “gruesome fairy tales”; and “a tale dark and Grimm.” Nothing like a soothing, happy-go-lucky story before bedtime. Happily, in adapting Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s 1812 classic about a runaway brother and sister and their wicked encounter with a wand-wielding witch, B Street Theatre Associate Producer-Resident Playwright Jerry R. Montoya (and young son Malachi) have given the two-dimensional story a hilarious and heartfelt makeover. In replacing the Grimms’ original series of nightmare
photographs by Barry Wisdom / There seems to be "an app" for everything. If only the pharmaceutical industry was as quick on the draw to deliver niche narcotics as Apple and its partners have been in creating software that satiates every possible desire. Perhaps it's not the drug companies' fault. Maybe it's that pesky Food and Drug Administration and its obsessive compulsion to ensure the safety of the U.S. population that forces most of us to get through the work day unmedicated and unhappy. Sure, there are illegal alternatives to doctor-prescribed "happy pills," but wouldn't it be so much better not to risk losing one's job and having employer-paid healthcare foot the bill for the m
Ohmigosh! I missed last year's parade – you mean there were more of them in 2010? I was going to mention something about how Dog the Bounty Hunter had replaced Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer as a top holiday icon!
Thank you, MC14 ... high praise indeed! Glad I could grow your heart three sizes!
Sofia and Hennessy aren't only incredibly talented artists, but they also have an inspiring sense of community that sets them apart. The duo created / donated a beautiful wall-to-wall mural at the Volunteers of America Residential Family Center in December 2009 that completely changed the atmosphere of the emergency shelter's dining hall and children's play area, transforming a somewhat sterile, "institutional" space into a warm, inviting and fun environment. Much success to them in 2011!
Just saw this - thank you, Alejandra! And I liked your article!
Conversation about: B Street's Stephanie Altholz: 'There's no other place I'd rather be'
FYI - I followed the B Street press release when writing the "Just the Facts" and caption info. Unfortunately, there was a typo in it. The correct spelling of Stephanie Altholz's co-star in "Aliens With Extraordinary Skills" is Rinabeth Apostol. My apologies to Rinabeth! Also, the Family Series show pictured in the slideshow should be "Junie B. Jones in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells!" That one is on me!