San Francisco banned petroleum-based plastic bags in large supermarkets and pharmacies, which, depending on your mind-set, was visionary leadership or the green nanny state in action.
"A Summer Day," which opened on Thursday night in a Rattlestick Playwrights Theater production directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde, is a quietly brutal little work that turns a romantic cliché into a sentence of existential doom (or freedom, depending on your mind-set).
However, everything depends on your mind.
FOR me, that's the best lesson: In music, as in so much in life, what happens depends on your mind-set, on what you're willing to share on the fly, almost without thinking.
Depending on your frame of mind, their enthusiasm can be infectious, or an annoying disruption of your cherished routine.
Lyrics as cryptic as Costello's often either demand or resist close reading, depending on your cast of mind.
At this point, depending on your cast of mind, you will either disembark in fear or gleefully reach for your video camera.
Hearing the competitors talk about their product-hawking efforts in heroic terms is either infuriating or laughable, depending on your frame of mind.
Depending on your frame of mind and your generation, you, or your forebears, may have experienced some mixture of wonder and jealousy when reading about bygone goings on at Andy Warhol's, Ken Kesey's, George Ripley's, or Gertrude Stein's.
Francesa and Russo are as much a part of the city's soundscape as jackhammers and accelerating buses, and, depending on your cast of mind, they can be as mesmerizing or as odious as the Teletubbies.
