Final Curtain Came Too Soon
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on November 28, 2008
Always a frenetically busy person, he explained in his clipped English accent that he was on a tight schedule: “I’ve got to take my sister out to dinner in half an hour.” In other words, the interview would have to be snappy.
In the end, though, it ran over time. Controversy had raged around Hickox for [...]
Crowds light up at arts festival’s final curtain
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on June 16, 2008
Lumina TWO, as the staff has been known to call it, is in the books and a successful second effort by most accounts.
But before the stages came down, the festival offered a final weekend of revelry that drew tens of thousands to two very different celebrations at the Distillery District and Harbourfront Centre.
Luminat’eau: Carnival H2O [...]
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 [...]
Curtain may not yet have fallen on theatre
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on May 11, 2008
Llewellyn Rhoe’s effort to establish Vancouver’s first professional theater company with its own venue ended in February when Arts Equity Onstage closed the doors to its Main Street Theatre.
But Rhoe is hoping for a second act.
He said former patrons have encouraged him to proceed with a 2008-09 season and resurrection may come now that Arts [...]
Speakout Voices: Cigarette display ban
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 21, 2008
We asked you whether you think covering up cigarette displays will make smoking less appealing to young people. Here’s what you had to say.
Hiding cigarettes puts health first? How about putting solar panels on every grid-tied roof in the province so we can finally close down our coal fired power plants? How about banning idling, [...]
Ideas A picture and a thousand words
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 6, 2008
If a picture is equivalent to 1,000 words, then dividing this strip of four photobooth images into 250 words apiece is too tempting to resist. Starting at the top, we see a couple looking at each other, instead of the camera lens. This polyptych is taken from historical photo collector N盲kki Goranin’s new book, American [...]
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 [...]
Curtain Goes Up On Sandy Project
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on April 4, 2008
developers are hoping to complete the first phase of the Proscenium, a 12-acre mixed-use development located at about 10000 South in Sandy Shower Curtain. The projected location is just east of I-15 and southwest of the Sandy City Hall.
The Proscenium, a $500 million brainchild of three partners, is planned to include three office towers [...]
A place to relax, make yourself at home, and enjoy the sunset
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on January 20, 2008
Junction residents may be going out for a drink when they drop into The Troubadour, but Kristy Hollidge wants them to think they never left home.The narrow room framed by an exposed brick wall is darkly cozy think New York in the 1920s with a front slightly skewed and deeper at one end. Gauzy red [...]
WhatsOn Ida Nevasayneva’s life as a cross-dressing ballerina
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on January 18, 2008
It has been nearly six years since Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo last graced a stage in Toronto. But this is a favourite city for the company, as the site of their first performance outside New York City, where the butchiest ballerinas in pointe shoes formed their company in 1974. Combining parody and technical [...]