Blackout Brings Curtain Down On Dalbeattie School Show
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on December 4, 2008
Dalbeattie High School was about to put on its annual Christmas entertainment on Friday night when part of the town was blacked out.
Four hundred customers in all were plunged into darkness for almost two hours.
Now the students are preparing to do it all again tomorrow night.
Tom Cuddihy, the lead teacher for the production, said: “The [...]
Raising the curtain on local talent
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on June 4, 2008
Art enhances the lives of not only the individuals who create it but also of those who view it, listen to it and perhaps in some cases even taste it. It has a calming quality and if last week’s talent show at George Elliot Secondary is any indication of the abilities of Lake Country’s next [...]
Laursen wins AMSOIL series curtain raiser
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on May 25, 2008
Three time AMSOIL Late Model Series champion Steve Laursen dominated the action at the Superior Speedway Friday night. The Cumberland driver served notice on the competition that he will be force to reckon with in a run for his fourth AMSOIL Late Model Series championship. The crafty veteran easily won his ten-lap heat race and [...]
Webb moves onto another record-setting mission
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on May 17, 2008
Another year, another record run. When Brandon Webb won his ninth consecutive start in an 8-5 victory over Colorado on Thursday, he became the fifth pitcher to win his first nine starts since 1920, according to Elias.
“It’s pretty amazing,” Webb said of his current run. “Things are just happening. Almost every time I’ve been out [...]
Dance: Clement Crisp
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on March 18, 2008
New York City BalletColiseum, London WC2Two new programmes enter the New York City Ballet repertory at the London Coliseum this week - shown in tandem with the evenings devoted to Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. On Tuesday, Thursday and Friday nights a quadruple bill features works recently made for the company by Peter Martins, Christopher Wheeldon, [...]
Kings face big task to retain Goorjian
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on March 18, 2008
It is going to take a Herculean effort to keep Brian Goorjian with the Sydney Kings.
The curtain was drawn on one of the most tumultuous seasons in Sydney’s checkered history with Friday night’s loss to Melbourne in game five of the NBL grand final series.
Attention now turns immediately to the future of the club itself, [...]
Kings face big task to retain Goorjian
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on March 17, 2008
It is going to take a Herculean effort to keep Brian Goorjian with the Sydney Kings.
The curtain was drawn on one of the most tumultuous seasons in Sydney’s checkered history with Friday night’s loss to Melbourne in game five of the NBL grand final series.
Attention now turns immediately to the future of the club itself, [...]
Music Heppner’s absence just a prelude to wild night at the opera
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on March 16, 2008
NEW YORKæŠirst Tristan, now Isolde. Already missing famed Canadian tenor Ben Heppner because of a virus, the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde lost Deborah Voigt in the middle of the second act Friday night because of a stomach ailment. That left the Met in the highly unusual spot of having [...]
Wooden acting drains lavish Tosca of its magic
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on January 28, 2008
Tosca
(out of 4)By Giacomo Puccini. Conducted by Richard Buckley. Directed by Paul Curran. Canadian Opera Company. To Feb. 23 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. 416-363-8231
Friday night’s opening of a new production of Giacomo Puccini’s beloved Tosca by the Canadian Opera Company proved that opera-goers must constitute [...]