Curtain Time for Barack Obama

Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on May 18, 2008

To understand how the Combine works in Illinois it’s important to recognize that the state is divided into three levels of political clout, beginning with Chicago, Cook County and the state of Illinois, according to Chicago columnist Ray Hanania.
It’s also important to remember that in December 2004, when Obama went house-hunting with his real estate [...]

News & Features `I brought the light back in’

Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 20, 2008

Anne Mroczkowski is an award-winning co-host of CityNews at Six on Citytv. At 20 consecutive seasons, she and Gord Martineau are the longest-serving anchor team in Canadian television news. Mroczkowski divides her time between her Bloor West Village city home and a country place in Thornbury. When not at home or work, the Hamilton-born, Toronto-raised [...]

Thommo reflects on career, not loss

Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on April 20, 2008

The fairytale ending wasn’t to be but veteran backrower Lance Thompson said he wouldn’t change a thing after the curtain drew on his illustrious NRL career.
Penrith spoiled Thompson’s party with a shock 21-20 golden point win at Toyota Stadium on Saturday night, the 30-year-old’s 239th and last first grade game after doctors told him his [...]

Critics’ choice

Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 6, 2008

TODAYTwice Removed pairs photographer Edward Burtynsky and abstract painter Brent McIntosh for a show of landscape work fashioned to rekindle one of the oldest concerns in contemporary art, the relation of painting and photography. Eight negatives of Burtynsky’s early landscapes his pre-industrial work from the 1980s became McIntosh’s point of demarcation for work the painter [...]