Bearden theater grads bring down final curtain
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on August 7, 2008
The second summer in a row, freshly graduated Bearden theater rats have self-financed a play as a farewell to high school drama days before heading off to college.
There seems to be a fondness for Victorian literary classics at Bearden. Last year’s play was a stage adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott novel “Little Women.” This [...]
Jean Luc Nelias lifts the curtain on the blackout
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on May 18, 2008
The problem with ocean races is that when the guys have set off, there is no such thing as a Sunday anymore. Everyone involved has to work everyday. Right let’s move on to some comments regarding this morning’s situation. The bad news is obviously the retirement of BT, who turned around yesterday at 17:30 GMT [...]
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 [...]
GTA Living in a clockwork ghost town
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 20, 2008
At 4 p.m. on an April work day, Bay Street at King Street is cool and a study in contrasts. Bright sun warms the granite steps of the TD Canada Trust tower. The sidewalk across the street lies in deep shade.Office workers push [...]
Baseball Nationals walk off field of new ballpark winners
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 6, 2008
WASHINGTONæ˜ationals Park had quite an opening. Ryan Zimmerman hit a tiebreaking homer off Peter Moylan with two outs in the ninth inning, and the Washington Nationals beat the Atlanta Braves 3-2 last night in the first regular-season game at the $611 million (U.S.) stadium. With the dome of the U.S. Capitol lit up against [...]
GTA Bringing opera to the movie masses
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 6, 2008
It was an afternoon of Puccini with popcorn as a performance by the Metropolitan Opera of La Bohme was beamed live to movie theatres around the world from the Lincoln Center in New York.The mix of high culture and mass entertainment was a huge hit in Greater Toronto yesterday, with many theatres sold out well [...]
A hills hideaway
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on March 29, 2008
Christopher Richards takes the road less travelled to a
quiet country cottage retreat in the high country.
We stand with Christine and Poul on their Howqua hillside and
watch the late-afternoon sun touching the forested hills. To one
side are the higher peaks of the Victorian Alps, casting their
magnetism over this region to the north-east of Lake Eildon.
We have [...]
WhatsOn Why it’s hard to let go of Elvis
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on March 13, 2008
Death and remembrance. It’s an issue that Toronto playwright Franca Miraglia explores in her latest work, Last Days of Graceland, opening tomorrow at Theatre Passe Muraille.The play itself is me thinking through the question of, ‘How do we say goodbye?’ said Miraglia of her ninth work.I’m always fascinated at how funerals do play that role [...]
Housing Excellence 2008
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on February 15, 2008
Is it that time of year again? Indeed it is, but this time its just that little bit extra special as we bring you the fifth annual Housing Excellence Awards.
Yes, thats five years of recognising and celebrating the achievements of the nations leading social landlords, house builders, contractors and suppliers.
To mark this anniversary celebration, well [...]
Travel Hutong-hunting in Beijing is not for the faint-hearted
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on January 18, 2008
BEIJINGhe cabbie gives me a blank stare so I smile and nod encouragingly. I’m trying to reach the Dashanzi Art District, northeast of Beijing, with a scrap of paper torn from a Time Out magazine. Soon the cabbie and I are giggling in mutual bewilderment. In my attempt to escape the madness of the city, [...]