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Sunday Morning Opera: Oh Holy Night

December 23, 2018December 22, 2018 Baritones, Bryn Terfel, CULTURE, Jonathan Estabrooks, Leontyne Price, Luciano Pavarotti, Music, Opera, OPERA, Placido Domingo, Thomas Hampson

I loath Christmas music that is sung poorly and six weeks before Christmas. Today is acceptable. It is December 23. And… We

Oh Holy Night

December 24, 2015December 23, 2015 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Jonathan Estabrooks, MAIN PAGE, Music, Opera, OPERA

Jonathan Estabrooks has the distinction of being a pin-up model for Barihunks. Not only that, but he has a voice. He aspires to opera

Sunday Morning Opera (sort of)

June 14, 2015June 13, 2015 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Jonathan Estabrooks, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson

Having been an opera fanatic for quite a few years now, I’ve developed a theory that a truly great operatic superstar must be able

Happy Birthday to the Greatest of Them All

January 10, 2015January 10, 2015 Art, Barihunks, Baritones, BASEBALL, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Erwin Schrott, Jonathan Estabrooks, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Sherrill Milnes

Opera and baseball go together. Don’t ask me why, there is no rational explanation. Then again, that’s what both of them are to those

A New Year’s Opera Gala

December 31, 2014December 30, 2014 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Erwin Schrott, Jonathan Estabrooks, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside

We can never have enough opera or enough of our wonderful baritones barihunks. Traditionally, in opera houses throughout the world, on New Year’s Eve,

A Labor Day Baritone Feast

September 1, 2014August 30, 2014 Barihunks, Baritones, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Jonathan Estabrooks, Met, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside

Who is your favorite baritone and your favorite baritone role? Once upon a time in opera, the heroes were always tenor. I’m still not

UPDATED: Yes, There Are Rock Stars in Opera

April 26, 2014April 26, 2014 Barihunks, Baritones, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Erwin Schrott, Jonathan Estabrooks, MAIN PAGE, Met, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Sherrill Milnes

“…Hvorostovsky received his first round of applause, rock-star style, for the mere fact of having walked onto the stage. ..” UPDATE: On Friday evening,

A Great Barihunk!

March 15, 2014March 15, 2014 Barihunks, Baritones, Jonathan Estabrooks, Opera, OPERA

For the past year or so, I’ve been following an exciting Barihunk – Jonathan Estabrooks. He did some incredibly creative funding for his first

Part II: The Man Who Would Kill the Metropolitan Opera

February 15, 2014February 13, 2014 Art, Barihunks, Baritones, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Economic Downturn, ECONOMY, Erwin Schrott, Jonathan Estabrooks, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside

This is the second of two parts about the disaster that is Peter Gelb. We are living in the Golden Age of Barihunks. For

Bucks for a Barihunk!

June 16, 2013June 16, 2013 Barihunks, Baritones, Books by SJ Reidhead, Jonathan Estabrooks, MAIN PAGE, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL

What happens when you put a total showman, part ham, part Mr. Entertainer, and all Barihunk, on stage? Well, when it comes to Jonathan

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

SJ Reidhead (aka The Pink Flamingo) is a writer based in New Mexico. The author of two published novels, both westerns: Dust Devil and The Second Mrs. Earp and two published works of non-fictions: TRAVESTY: Frank Waters Earp Agenda Exposed and A Church for Helldorado, Endicott Peabody's 1882 Tombstone Diary. One of the leading authorities on the life of Wyatt Earp and Tombstone during the Earp years, she is writing a series of murder mysteries set in modern day Tombstone. The author is also working on a book about fashion in the Wild West. When complete, there will be over 2100 unpublished antique photographs dating from 1855-1910.

The author's work has appeared in Wild West, True West, Blogcritics, and The Tombstone Times. Recently the author has had to deal with a father who succumbed to Alzheimer's Disease. This is leading to a book dealing with the frustrations of dealing with the frustrations of the disease, finance, legal, health-care, and things no one bothers telling families about it. A portion of the book will contain entries from a blog she kept, detailing the struggle with her father's AD. She is also working on a murder mystery series set in modern day Tombstone and Cochise County. Several books of essays on Christian living are currently in edits. A book of essays and revisions of articles about Wyatt Earp has been completed and will include her latest work detailing her theory about the murder of his second wife, Mattie.

SJ Reidhead has been involved in Republican politics since she was 'a little kid'. During the Reagan years she was a lobbyist working with various non-profit organizations who were attempting to salvage NASA and the American space program after the disastrous Carter years. In spite of ups and downs, and numerous disappointments, politically, it is obvious the only political hope for this country is via the Republican Party. Along with politics she is an opera fanatic, has been known to stalk baritones to the point of being a baritone junkie, and loves baseball.

The Pink Flamingo went on line on October 4, 2005.

THE PINK FLAMINGO STORY

It started out as a joke. During the seven years I worked with the girls of my parish, leading a youth group, one of the things that I stressed were manners. Part of having manners, the way I see it, is to know how to set a proper table, host a party, cater it, and clean up afterward. I was fortunate enough to have a group of very talented girls in my youth group. They learned how to plan for, and execute large church functions, very properly. During one such function I noticed there were several incredibly tacky pink flamingos sitting on the table. Knowing the girls were up to something, I said nothing. A few months later they did the same thing at a function I was hosting at my home. I said nothing. They had a birthday party for me. More pink flamingos appeared - and a joke was born.

Thanks to the girls, all of whom are now grown, I have a collection of pink flamingos. It has become an ongoing joke. When I began working on my political blog, I realized the only possibly title was The Pink Flamingo!