were used to go after her,” a former Sinclair reporter told GQ. Since then, the company has become a national conservative force, creating “must run” segments for its stations, including (during the Bush years) a nightly one-to-two-minute right-wing commentary by the company’s VP called “The Point,” and more recently the commentary of Boris Epshteyn, a former aide to Donald Trump. Sinclair ran a series of interviews with Bush administration officials conducted by a conservative pundit Armstrong Williams, who also happened to have been paid $240,000 by the Bush administration. When Smith forced networks to air Stolen Honor, an anti-John Kerry propaganda film in prime-time slots during the 2004 election, there was a boycott of sponsors, but Smith was not swayed.

It made for a strangely incongruous moment, with aThe Brewster family comes to Castro Valley at the Chanticleers Theatre in the classic comedy "Arsenic and Old Lace." The famous Frank Capra movie of the same name starring Cary Grant has been a long-time favorite for theatre and movie-goers. This hilarious farce, written by Joseph Kesselring and directed by Michael Sally, opens Friday night, May 21, at the Chanticleers Community Theatre.

This is a story about two seemingly harmless old ladies who entertain, then poison lonely gentlemen callers. The spinster Brewster sisters, Abby and Martha, are played by newcomer, Patricia Inabnet and Chanticleers board member, Susan Hohl. The show becomes frantic when their nephew, Mortimer Brewster, played by Craig Eychner, finds out what his aunts are up to. Mortimer tries to save his aunts from the law as