A wizard behind the curtain winks
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on August 21, 2008
All around nice guy, soft spoken, quick to laugh and slow to kvetch—Rob Curcio has a lot of irons in the fire. As an art world mover and shaker he performs myriad duties, from writing to curating. Whether he’s organizing a festival or marketing a publication, his trademark personal touch is perennially smooth.
Bitten by the [...]
Final curtain for Casselman sound and light show
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on August 17, 2008
Accolades are pouring in for the Franco-Ontarian sound and light extravaganza L’echo d’un peuple which has announced that last night’s show here would be the final one after five seasons.
Organizers of the historic pageant confirmed L’echo’s demise early last week, a turn of events they blamed on poor ticket sales to the outdoor venue at [...]
BIAW campaign exploits old state divisions
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on July 14, 2008
WITH HIS PROPENSITY for shooting from the lip, Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona once opined that the United States would be better off were the Eastern Seaboard cut off and floated out to sea.
In 1964, with Goldwater the Republican presidential nominee, Democrats gleefully aired a TV shot showing a saw sticking up through a map [...]
Curtain almost ready to rise at new auditorium
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on June 16, 2008
The nearly completed 600-seat auditorium at Bucks County Technical High School will be finished on time and under budget.
The $6 million project began in 2006 and is expected to be finished this month, said Scott Parks, the school’s administrative director. Crews are set this week to break down a portion of the existing building’s wall [...]
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 [...]
Unitized Curtain Walling Facade Specified for Complex Building
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on June 4, 2008
The building covers a constrained and challenging site, close to tram lines and railway tracks and oversailing two busy highways and the Bridgewater Canal. The specification of a unitized solution for the project will eliminate the need for scaffolding and the storage of cladding materials and glass handling on site – a major advantage for [...]
Meeting a legend
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on May 17, 2008
Growing up as a wrestling fan, I always relish the chance to interview the stars that graced my television set as a kid. The more I began to learn about the business, the more I began a fascination with the history of the industry. This is why I always value the chance to interview the [...]
Czechs head Central Europe’s catch-up quartet in race for Western riches
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on April 27, 2008
Czechs are in pole position to overturn decades of post-war economic decline and stagnation to become the first citizens of a former Communist bloc country to attain Western levels of prosperity.
Catch-up with the West can be achieved within a decade, according to the latest upbeat report on the Central European country published by the 30-strong [...]
living This house not for mere mortals
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 20, 2008
East Hampton, N.Y.%26ndash;The house is off-limits to children, and adults are asked to sign a waiver when they enter. The main concern is the concrete floor, which rises and falls like the surface of a vast, bumpy chocolate chip cookie.But, for Arakawa, 71, [...]
columnists Torch relay a magnet for trouble
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 19, 2008
Early one morning, around 6 a.m. it was, a solitary spectator sat in the stands of a boxing arena in Barcelona.He’d come, without fanfare and without entourage, to witness a preliminary round bout featuring a black South African flyweight the first athlete of colour to represent that country in the Olympics after decades as an [...]