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Your Mission, should you choose to accept it

November 15, 2012
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Tweet We’ve introduced you to our cozy garden apartment in San Francisco. Now, onto the neighborhood! Because of its geographical location, The Mission is insulated from the fog and wind from the west, creating a microclimate that is on average 10 degrees warmer than the rest of the city. “It’s always sunny in the Mission,” […]

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The Insta-Home Challenge: San Francisco

November 13, 2012
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Tweet We’re in San Francisco, glorious San Francisco. We oughta put some flowers in our hair. IMG_4872 We have been looking forward to this leg of the Lion King tour for months! Not only are we in one of the greenest, most vibrant and most diverse metropolitan areas of the country, we’re close to my […]

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Spinning heads and time zone changes

November 11, 2012
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Tweet Oh, friends. It’s been a long-ish time since we last posted — two whole weeks! Gah! Why does it seem like forever in Internet Standard Time? We’ve gotten a few worried emails asking pretty much the same thing: Why the silence? Are the Hollicks okay? Who won the Facebook giveaway? Was it me? Are […]

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Thank you, 1k Facebook fans!

October 25, 2012
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Tweet In celebration (and open-mouthed astonishment) of nearing our 1,000th Facebook “Like”, the Hollicks are giving away a FREE CD of Disney’s The Lion King Original Cast on Broadway Recording! We will mail to it you wherever you are in the world, including Thailand — where it strangely seems we have a following! So go […]

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The Insta-Home Challenge: Albuquerque

October 12, 2012
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Tweet We Hollicks deem ourselves fairly well-traveled, but this is the first time either of us have stepped foot in New Mexico. And our feet landed in a Pueblo-style townhome in Old Town, Albuquerque — complete with five adults, one tween, one toddler, one cat and a couple of hamsters! Full House has nothing on […]

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BACKSTAGE BANTER: Meet MUFASA!
Actor Dionne Randolph as you’ve never seen him

September 28, 2012
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Tweet You think you know the Big Daddy of the Pride Lands… but you don’t. Dionne Randolph is the longest continuous running Mufasa that Disney has employed, and at nine years with The Lion King, he is one of the most veteran on the Gazelle tour. The beefcake actor with the silky, heartbreaking voice who […]

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Keeper of the Plains — and Flames

September 25, 2012
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Tweet Wichita has surely bewitched us. Hero, Max and I make a pilgrimage to the Keeper of the Plains every night. Is the Great Spirit calling us? IMG_0403 The 44-foot tall Keeper of the Plains steel sculpture stands at the confluence of the Big and Little Arkansas Rivers, with hands raised in prayer to the […]

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St. Louis’ Greatest Hits

September 24, 2012
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Tweet The saying really is true: It’s not quantity but quality that counts. IMG_9773 Our short three-week St. Louis stay could have been disastrous, from many accounts. We kept noticing one annoying thing after another in our dismal vacation rental. My neck was still a-killin’ me. And oh yes, there was that shooting just 2 […]

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Pit Stop: Talkin’ Civil Rights in Memphis

September 20, 2012
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Tweet Amy_Cordileone Angela’s note: To say that Amy Cordileone is an amazing multi-tasker would be a bit of an understatement! This wife to Nick (who plays Timon on tour with The Lion King) and mom to 10-year-old Hero lives in New York City while teaching at New York University, and then hops on tour with […]

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Houston’s Greatest Hits

September 11, 2012
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Tweet After five weeks in Texas, I’ve learned my share of local idioms, so you shall see them respectfully peppered throughout this Best Of post in italics. And when I look back on how fit to be tied I was about the problems in our corporate apartment in Houston, I feel ashamed. I’m not gonna […]

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