Charles Chaplin News

The sign above the bar in Baumgartner's Cheese Store and Tavern warns visitors about the perils of sampling the $3.25 house specialty - a slab of Limburger cheese on rye bread slathered with onions and mustard.

In 1923, two years before Charlie Chaplin made his Klondike film The Gold Rush, a Canadian woman named Nell Shipman was there first.

They often sing in German. They've released CDs with such titles as "Born to Be Heiled" and "Scheissmessiah." They based their band name on a Grimm fairy tale.

Kirstin Scott and Rob McClure in La Jolla Playhouse's 2010 world-premiere production of "Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin." - Craig Schwartz The Outer Critics Circle Awards might not always be the harbinger of greater stage glories to come.