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www.TheExaminerNews.com July 27 - August 2, 2010 9 Due to Poor Leadership, New York State Budget Dead on Arrival It’s finally arrived! Washington to give back the $1.1 billion in of New York State are witnessing the most rid ourselves of all these people who have Not the fully Medicaid aid they had taken away from us incompetent, cowardly, sorry excuses breached the public trust by firing them all completed New for THEIR own budgetary constraints. This for lawmakers in our long history. It is on November 3rd. They have failed us by York State budget, is how our legislators expect to plug the impossible to expect New York to become destroying our wonderful state by making heaven forbid, but $9.2 billion budget gap. Add in unrealistic a place that people will want to live in and it a cruel burden to choose to live here. I State Comptroller expectations for increased state income. that businesses will want to move to without love New York and will fight to save it from Thomas DiNapoli’s Now pile on one time savings gimmicks of a complete purge of every incumbent going the way of Greece. It will take 230 new a s s e s s m e n t over $14 billion instead of truly occupying a seat in the current Citizen Legislators, dedicated to cutting of the $134.4 cutting costs ANYWHERE legislature. It is humiliating that the size of government and government billion budgetary within the State government. Guest we have allowed these people to spending, dedicated to making New York a b e h e m o t h . This budget expects to see squander our hard earned tax magnet for new businesses, and dedicated By Steve Katz New York’s top $500 million in savings from Column dollars. How dare they spend to their own term limits, to begin turning accountant is concessions by the public money they knew we didn’t New York back into a place we all are proud making official employee unions in pension have. We’re paying over $8 in to live in. what we taxpayers already knew; that relief, overtime, and hiring practices. Who taxpayer money for every dollar put in by a Steve Katz is a veterinarian running for the this budget is a testimony to incompetent knows, since the unions have not yet agreed public employee’s union worker. I propose New York State 99th Assembly seat. He is a leadership and cowardly, re-election-driven to one dollar worth of concessions. And a matching pension fund contribution with Republican also seeking the Conservative and legislators. let’s not forget that the legislators left for a yearly ceiling. Independence lines. For more information, This is a budget that INCREASES vacation without voting on a bill to raise $1 The legislators did not put a property tax his website is www.katz4ny.com. spending by $5.4 billion, twice the rate billion in new taxes for us all. increase limit in the budget. I propose a of inflation at 4.2 percent. They expect I think you get the picture. We the citizens property tax freeze. I also propose that we Swingin’ Bard goes Hip-Hop: ‘Bomb-itty of Errors’ at Shakespeare Fest By Abby Luby Brooks (Borrelli) to a literary tone-deaf It’s amazing to witness four men tirelessly bike messenger (Carr), who fails at his sing a hip-hop version of Shakespeare while attempt to utter simple rhymes. shimmying in and out of wild and wacky In the course of the story Antipholus male and female roles. This hilarious, of Syracuse (Borrelli) falls in love with staged schizophrenia takes place in the Luciana (Halley), the squeaky, dumb “Bomb-itty of Errors,” now playing at the blonde, stamping her foot, hands on hips, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. an act that literally brought the house “Bomb-itty” is the rap music adaptation down. Halley later morphs into a cop who of Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors” and spews a stream of x-rated rap. is guaranteed to appeal to teens and young Antipholus of Ephesus is played by adults, hopefully reigning them in with an Carr, who also, convincingly, plays that accessible lingo and turning them on to the character’s wife, Adriana. At one point magic of Shakespeare. Bard aficionados both characters kiss – a brilliant maneuver will appreciate the plots’ twists and turns in of smooching into the wife’s wig cleverly this wonderful, zany interpretation. sandwiched between the curtains. Director Christopher Edwards, also one Jacobs, who plays Dromio of Syracuse, of the festivals’ actors, has fine-tuned his doubles as a saucy temptress flaunting cast - and check out these stage names - high-drag by way of exaggerated, black- Michael Borrelli as Hot Ice, Wayne T. Carr laced cones for breasts incongruously as Black Light, Patrick Halley as Wintry resting on Jacobs Chest hairs. He also plays Mix and Christian Jacobs as Phantom of a Rasta healer. Wayne T. Carr (left), or Black Light, plays a tone-deaf bike messenger while Patrick Halley, aka Wintry Mix, the Choppera. DJ iPhool, (the DJ) is played High kudos should go to the myriad of plays the lead’s ditzy blond love interest in “Bomb-itty of Errors.” by Chistopher Joshua McCardle, who is stage hands for their perched on a small sound stage hovering lightning-fast costume changes. All this over the audience, spinning records as the happens behind the graffiti emblazoned omniscient fulcrum of percussive beats set; although it blocks the exquisite view accompanying the actor’s live rap. The DJ of the river, the view is hardly missed; we is randomly acknowledged in the play and imagine the frenzied action behind the set, rap music is interspersed with the spoken action that assuredly is as fascinating as the word throughout. action in front. The story of mistaken identity in “Bomb-itty” was written in 1998 by “Comedy of Errors” is the springboard for four NYU students: Jordan Allen-Dutton, “Bomb-itty” but quickly diverges to bawdy, Jason Catalano, GQ and Erik Weiner. All back-street shuffles and tawdry bumps and music is written by J.A.Q. The show has grinds. The story starts with two sets of been performed in New York City (Off- identical twins with one pair as designated Broadway), London (West End), Chicago, servants of the other pair. The twins were Dublin, Edinburgh, Florida, Aspen, separated at birth, and to complicate the Syracuse, and Los Angeles. It has been story even further, each of the four have nominated alongside Stephen Sondheim the same name as his twin. Wishing to find for Best Lyrics at the Drama Desk Awards, their brothers, Antipholus and his servant nominated for Outer Critics Circle Awards, Dromio of Syracuse rock and roll and rap and received the Jefferson Award in Chicago through gang-ridden streets and black- and the Grand Jury Prize at the HBO US light dance clubs to find Antipholus and Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. Dromio of Ephesus. “Bomb-itty of Errors” runs through Michael Borrelli (left) and Christian Jacobs, aka Hot Ice and Phantom of the Choppera respectively, star How could this not be fun? September 3. 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