A Small Brazilian Curtain Firm Trying to Make It Big Overseas
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on August 21, 2008
According to the company director, Aparecida Ibrahim, who is a daughter of Lebanese parents, it was a Jordanian trader who sent the company an e-mail showing interest in JJ Cortinas products. “We are very pleased and it is being very positive for us,” stated Aparecida, who took months selecting a sample of each curtain of [...]
Crowds light up at arts festival’s final curtain
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on June 16, 2008
Lumina TWO, as the staff has been known to call it, is in the books and a successful second effort by most accounts.
But before the stages came down, the festival offered a final weekend of revelry that drew tens of thousands to two very different celebrations at the Distillery District and Harbourfront Centre.
Luminat’eau: Carnival H2O [...]
Curtain rises at new performing arts centre
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on June 4, 2008
From Alice’s Restaurant to Rosecrantz and Guildenstern, the stage is set for the first season at Richmond Hill’s new performing arts centre.
The vision of having a theatre for York Region has been in the works for at least 26 years and this council is proud to be making it a reality, he said.
A quartet of [...]
Actress pursues parallel career as singer-songwriter
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on May 25, 2008
Rebecca Pidgeon, who is married to writer David Mamet, has long nurtured two parallel careers: one as an actress, the other as a singer-songwriter. Her seventh album, “Beneath the Velvet Curtain,” is her best work yet; several of the songs appear on the soundtrack of her husband’s new film, “Redbelt,” in which she also acts.
Pidgeon [...]
Curtain Time for Barack Obama
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on May 15, 2008
The April 29, 2008 report also noted that before he escaped from jail in Bagdad in December 2006, and returned to Chicago, Obama’s US Senate office had sought information about Alsammarae from the State Department on October 16, 2006 on behalf of Alsammarae’s family while he was being held in jail in Iraq.
As usual, when [...]
Swap meet puts kids on the right train collecting track
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 17, 2008
To celebrate the birthday, his father,Kitchen Curtain Rick Redman drove the 55 miles from Peru to Lafayette for a model railroad swap meet at First Church of the Nazarene.
“I used to collect trains when I was his age,” Redman said. “I kind of got out of it as I got older. But now that I’ve [...]
‘Ambitious PiLON’
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on April 7, 2008
PiLON might be a sub-contractor, but it acts and thinks like a main contractor. Thats because it aspires to become one - and this bold newcomer sees a dedication to customer service as the key to unlocking that goal.
Theres nothing like making a good impression, and thats exactly what relative newcomer PiLON is determined to [...]
Sox Notes: ‘pap’ Looking For His Payday
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 3, 2008
Jonathan Papelbon never met free agency pioneer Curt Flood,Kitchen Curtain but he appears to share his spirit.
“I feel like the position I’m in, there’s a certain standard that needs to be put in place here,” said Boston’s closer in regard to his current contract negotiations. “And I feel like with me being at the top [...]
Dramas Get Attention And Give Musicals A Run For Their Money
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on April 1, 2008
For at least 25 years, the premier commercial theater district in the country has been dominated by musicals. Such serious dramatists as Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams were once represented on Broadway marquees, but the straight play was pushed to the margins during the final third of the last century.
As the audience base shifted from [...]
Drive Life
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on March 29, 2008
It’s not every day a revolt affects how a car is designed
but that is how the Nissan Dualis was created.
When Nissan stylists were drawing up the company’s next-generation
soft-roader almost four years ago, green groups were calling for
four-wheel-drives to be banned from the streets of Paris.
Denis Baupin, the deputy mayor of Paris and a Green Party
councillor [...]