The Other Side of the Velvet Curtain
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on September 11, 2008
It’s only in retrospect that I have come to realize that schmoozing with the president of NBC and making small talk with Chris Tucker and Quincy Jones is not the typical Olympic experience.
And I can also tell you that it is not very typical to debate whether to go to the boxing semi-finals or get [...]
Olympics That Never Ring Down Curtain
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on September 11, 2008
“Life should be like Olympic Games that never ring down the curtain,” said Ping Yali, China’s first Paralympic champion on Thursday.
Starting from 2007, Ping has turned her parlor into a chain of successful business though there were ineviatably all sorts of difficulties. And, more than that, after many years of motherly love and patience, her [...]
Jackets pull down the curtain
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on August 4, 2008
With the advent of minicamps and summer workouts, the official first day of high school football practice has become more of a symbol.
“It has gone good,” Deal said. “We’ve had a good attitude, came out and worked hard. We’ve had some meetings to iron out rules and regulations, to let them know what is going [...]
Dame is man behind Bums’ curtain
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on July 28, 2008
As the clubhouse manager for the Traverse City Beach Bums, Dame has many responsibilities. Laundry detail is just one of them.
As a lifelong fan of baseball, Dame saw the clubhouse job as a way to get involved with the sport and continue working with youth.
When the Beach Bums are home, Dame is busy getting everything [...]
Curtain rises on new theater troupe
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on July 26, 2008
Only insomniacs need apply for the kind of schedule Ron Giddings keeps.
Standing O Productions premieres its first play, “On the Twentieth Century” at Anne Arundel Community College on Friday.
“It’s becoming more and more like my own life,” Mr. Giddings joked last weekend before a rehearsal. “We had a year to put this together, and it’s [...]
Pulling down the curtain again
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on July 9, 2008
In the view of the Kremlin, some investors are more equal than others. Russia is not alone in wanting to restrict foreign ownership in strategic industries but few nations could compile a list of 42 strategic sectors including almost every natural resource, including fisheries as well as television and radio broadcasters.
As with everything Russian, the [...]
Oldcastle Glass(R) Sells Translucent Business
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on July 9, 2008
Oldcastle Glass(R) has reached an agreement to sell its translucent wall and skylight business to Major Industries, a market leader in the translucent daylighting industry. Under the terms of the sale, Major Industries will assume the translucent wall and skylight backlog, and provide warranty support for existing installations. The sale is expected to close by [...]
PMT curtain call after 18 years
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on June 11, 2008
The Pratt Music Theatre Board of Directors has voted to dissolve the corporation no later than June 30, ending an 18-year run of live theater in the Pratt community.
“This decision has not been reached easily and not without much soul searching and prayerful consideration,†according to a June 3 letter to “PMT friends†from the [...]
Getting their hands dirty
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on May 25, 2008
Abstract art makes me nervous. And it makes me feel stupid. I’m more of a fan of the Athar Jamal water colour. My mother has some incredibly ugly but expensive abstract art the colour of goat turd in the hallway, which she once quipped would be worth a fortune one day; she was saving them [...]
Cold War legacy a haven for nature
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on May 18, 2008
ONCE the Iron Curtain was synonymous with death and oppression. It was festooned with mines, tripwires, barbed wire, watchtowers and guards paid to shoot human prey.
But this no man’s land was also home to an astonishing variety of wildlife flourishing where the barrier separated communist East from capitalist West. Now, if plans stay on course [...]