living Racking up perfect room
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on February 24, 2008
Even the boys need a bit of je ne sais quoi to brighten up their domains. Here we have a lonely pool table squatting in a 17-foot by 22-foot unfinished basement room, with a 10-foot-high ceiling. This space also has two windows, with [...]
USElection Clinton can’t land a punch
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on February 24, 2008
WASHINGTONæ˜o one outside Texas had ever heard of Kirk Watson before Tuesday night when, in a two minute, 30 second nationally televised car wreck of political punditry, he became Hillary Clinton’s best campaign asset.The fact that he was on live television to sing the praises of Barack Obama, and was being nailed to the wall [...]
News You can’t kill a symbol
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on February 24, 2008
Tom, you know you surprise me, says Al Pacino’s Michael Corleone to Robert Duvall’s skeptical Tom Hagen in The Godfather Part II. If anything in this life is certain %26ndash; if history has taught us anything %26ndash; it’s that you can kill anybody.Released [...]
Canada Time to topple Tories: Layton
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on February 24, 2008
NDP Leader Jack Layton is urging other opposition MPs to join him in opposing Tuesday’s federal budget in a bid to topple the Conservative minority government. Unless the Liberals are willing to vote down the budget, there’s a chance Prime Minister Stephen Harper [...]
living At-home visitation a return to tradition
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on February 22, 2008
There is something nice about having the person you love at home, says Nola Crewe, dressed elegantly in a black skirt and pale blouse.In the front room of her impressive Riverdale Ave. home, Crewe glances fondly at her mother’s tiny frame, her skin translucent, her eyes closed, as she lies in a blond-oak casket. She [...]
GTA Sneak peek at $50M emergency room
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on February 21, 2008
Quietly and without fanfare, Sunnybrook hospital has opened a $50 million emergency department capable of handling everything from multiple trauma cases to outbreaks of infectious disease.While the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre ER won’t get an official ribbon-cutting ceremony until construction is complete at the end of this year, the Star got a sneak peak recently.Everything [...]
What’s On: Clubs
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on February 21, 2008
Alleycatz (2409 Yonge St. 416-481-6865): Urban Siren tonight; Soular Fri. %26#38; Sat.; open stage jam every Sun.; Swing House Band every Tues.; Jasmin Bailey %26#38; Co. every Wed.Annex Wreckroom (794 Bathurst St.): Anniversary party Sat. (SuperNova 3 p.m.); Winter Caribbean Festival with Dwayne [...]
World Pakistan at a crossroads
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on February 21, 2008
LAHORE, Pakistanæ—illions of Pakistanis headed to the polls today in the most watched election in this nation’s history.Whether peace or rioting or the high-stakes horse-trading involved in building a coalition government will follow, is anyone’s guess.But one thing is certain: The firebrand lawyer who led a national resistance movement against Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s suspension [...]
Southwark tenants win award
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on February 21, 2008
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Coventry elderly housing plans on show
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on February 21, 2008
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