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 [...]
Spencer taking aim the Derby with Curtain Call
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on May 30, 2008
Normally on these occasions ‘gallop’ is a misnomer for something more sedate. Though he may have negotiated Epsom’s camber at a pace that wouldn’t have thrown a three-legged giraffe off balance, Curtain Call and his lead horse did a serious enough bit of work over the last three furlongs for pulling up before they ran [...]
Curtain comes down on HIFA
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on May 3, 2008
As the curtain comes down on the prestigious festival, an intriguing line up of internationally acclaimed artistes has been put up, setting the tone for ending the festival in style this evening.
As if to serve the best for the last, Afro-pop icon Oliver Mtukudzi, acclaimed guitarist Louis Mhlanga, flautist and saxophonist Steve Dyer and Afro-pop [...]
Renovation Out of Africa
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 20, 2008
Denise Zidel is the African queen.Zidel has tapped right into the current rage for bagging all things safari with her furniture and accessories business Snob.And she comes by it honestly she hails from South Africa. But her showroom at 388 Carlaw Ave. is not too I’m Tarzan, you Jane.Nor is it as precious as Ernest [...]
Diamond Hoo Ha
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on April 20, 2008
Few bands catch the tenor of their musical times yet Supergrass
have done so twice. Their 1995 single Alright marked the
acceptance by British youth culture of Britpop, while four years
later their elegiac, emotionally scarred self-titled third album
brought the curtain down on the same movement and its desperate
excesses.
Diamond Hoo Ha is their sixth studio set and it [...]
KopiTiam On 282
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on April 20, 2008
A reader rang to say if I like Singaporean food, I might be
interested in an Eastwood eatery called KopiTiam On 282. KopiTiam
is a fabulous word, a combination of the Malay for coffee and the
Hokkien for shop to describe a traditional breakfast and coffee
stop, a stall or a cart where you might get eggs and coffee [...]
Wild nights, wild sights
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on April 6, 2008
First, catch a Greenland shark. Bury its toxic carcass in the ground for six months until all the cyanic acid has drained away, dig it up, cut it into pungent little cubes, pop it in a bag and head for a night on the razzle in downtown Reykjavik. The putrified fish is said to provide [...]
Spirit of Uganda
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on March 20, 2008
There is so much grief coming out of Africa that it’s good to report something upbeat for a change. Partially in order to raise awareness of the ravages of civil war and Aids, which have left an estimated 2.4m orphans, Empower African Children, a company of youngsters aged from eight to 18, is touring a [...]
Spirit of Uganda, Joyce Theater, New York
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on March 20, 2008
There is so much grief coming out of Africa that it good to report something upbeat for a change. Partially in order to raise awareness of the ravages of civil war and Aids, which have left an estimated 2.4m orphans, Empower African Children, a company of youngsters aged from eight to 18, is touring a [...]
living It’s all about details in luxurious suite
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on March 9, 2008
Rising 21 storeys from a curved podium at the corner of Bay and Davenport, the glass curtain wall architecture of the Florian condo promises to be a downtown landmark. But that’s not what will make it successful, says Paolo Palamara, the Florian’s builder. A building must relate to the dignity of it residents and of [...]