Climbing down a coal shaft and up a castle keep in Wales

Seeing how both halfs lived –

We were descending a into 300-foot-deep Welsh coal mine, hard hats firmly in place, watches and anything else with batteries removed because the law requires it to prevent a spark that could set off flammable methane gas.
Our guide, a former miner, grinned and joked. We laughed nervously. If you want a memorable experience, visiting “The Big Pit,” an hour’s drive north of Cardiff, is high on the agenda!

Class Dismissed? Not by These Playwrights

IPS (Inter Press Service), July 5, 2007

The United States is famous as a country that denies the validity of class. But you’d get a different idea at theaters across New York, where two new plays and a revival look head-on at the way wealth, status and power affect people’s lives.

The new original works are “Radio Golf” and “In The Heights,” while the revival is “A Moon for the Misbegotten.” They’re either on Broadway or moving there shortly.