Review: Government shutdown hits the Long Beach Opera stage, but `The Black Cat` goes on
(LA Times MLB)

Writing in his cell as he awaits the gallows, the narrator of Edgar Allan Poe´s `The Black Cat` curiously figures that what was to him `little but Horror` will to many appear `a mere series of household events` and `less terrible than barroques.` `Hereafter, perhaps, some intellect may be found...