75 stories by "Kevin Delin"
There's a black and white photograph in my high school yearbook. It's of people in winter gear hanging around a railing at the skating rink where our hockey team played. A banner of the team…
Chuck Berry may be dead but you know he won’t stay buried. He’s just too irrepressible for confinement to such a singular state. He was like his music: audacious and …
Are you a fan of NASA and the scientific output of our national laboratories? Better enjoy it while our open scientific culture lasts. President Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty. Pre…
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I can’t tell you why she affects me so. I only know that if I let my guard down for but a moment, there’s a tightening in my gut and a wave of panic and helplessness comes over m…
If 2017 already seems a little grim, well, it’s likely because it is a little grim. A lot of the country is miserable over the outcome of the presidential election. Or, mor…
Though hard to imagine today, federal law once prevented anyone from using the U.S. Postal Service to send contraceptives. In fact, the same law prevented people from using the Postal Servic…
Scholar and veteran actor Dakin Matthews is back to explain the recent court dismissal of the lawsuit brought against Actors’ Equity. You can currently see Dakin on Broadway in Wai…
You remember the story of Solomon and the Baby? Solomon was able to smoke out the true mother of the child by threatening to divide it. The fake mother, who must have been awfully cy…
The hashtag #NotMyPresident is quite popular right now. I can’t get behind it. Whether or not a person voted for Mr. Trump, he is now the soon-to-be Chief Executive of the coun…
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Lately my thoughts have drifted to Halloween because we live in a culture where, the moment Labor Day hits, polite women stop wearing white shoes and grocery stores start pushing orange bags…
When an American playwright with enough interesting insights to win 3 Pulitzer Prizes " 4 if you count the one not given to him because the advisory committee didn’t want to give a pri…
Dakin Matthews is a proud member of Actors Equity for almost 50 years. He has worked under many of its contracts, codes, and plans including, recently, five shows on Broadway. He is also…
There is much in the news these days about how artists, and the personnel infrastructure supporting the artists, need to be appropriately compensated. Los Angeles theater, of course, has…
Under the title “There is Pro99 Data and Then There Are the Facts,” Los Angeles playwright, producer, and stage manager Armina LaManna has published a rebuttal in The DramatistÂ…
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Earlier this week, I reviewed Actors’ Equity’s new website equityworksla.com. Equity claims this special site will inform Los Angeles about the coming rule-changes. S…
Actors’ Equity has launched a new website, equityworksla.com. I wondered why a new website? After all, Equity already has a website and anyone in IT will tell you that maintain…
In the latest of the legal battle shaping up between a group of Los Angeles actors who are suing their own union, Actors’ Equity, comes the official response to Equity’s Motion t…
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Back in October 2015, when a group of LA actors served a lawsuit on their own Union, Actors’ Equity, actor and scholar Dakin Matthews was there to give a layman’s analysis of the…
If you follow the popular tech press, it’s likely you’ve seen a number of stories about artificial intelligence. The term “artificial intelligence” is somewhat lo…
Following the LA actors serving a lawsuit on their union, Actor’s Equity, the Union has countered with a motion to dismiss that lawsuit. The complete text of the motion can be foun…
