The Rogue Festival’s Renee Newlove

To Eat With Ranch Dressing or Without Ranch Dressing: That Is the Question

For five years, Renee Newlove was co-producer of the Rogue Performance and Arts Festival in Fresno; she is currently a Rogue board member. For the past decade, she’s been involved in theater arts, and she’s also a middle school English teacher in Selma, California. Before participating in a panel on where and how people experience art in the Central Valley today, she explained in the Zócalo green room what she’d ask Shakespeare about if they sat down for a beer, and why she puts ranch dressing on everything (at least …

Winter

[Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act 5, Scene 2]

When icicles hang by the wall
   And Dick the shepherd blows his nail
And Tom bears logs into the hall
   And milk comes frozen home in pail,
When blood is …