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 [...]
Curtain rises at new performing arts centre
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on June 4, 2008
From Alice’s Restaurant to Rosecrantz and Guildenstern, the stage is set for the first season at Richmond Hill’s new performing arts centre.
The vision of having a theatre for York Region has been in the works for at least 26 years and this council is proud to be making it a reality, he said.
A quartet of [...]
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 [...]
What’s On: Clubs
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 6, 2008
Alleycatz (2409 Yonge St. 416-481-6865): Urban Siren tonight; Soular Fri. %26#38; Sat.; Swing House Band every Tues.; Jasmin Bailey %26#38; Co. every Wed.Annex Wreckroom (794 Bathurst St.): Foty Fri.; The Man Behind the Curtain Sat; Drummer%26#39;s In Exile Tues.Artful Dodger (10 Isabella St. [...]
Virus season at the Met
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on March 29, 2008
Twenty-three years have passed since the Met last ventured Ernani . Perhaps they should have waited a bit longer.Pier Luigi Samaritani’s sparse designs, created in 1983, decorate Verdi’s glorious score and Piave’s creaky libretto with clunky window-dressing. Samaritani’s staging scheme forces the cast to clamber awkward steps when not striking picturesque poses. Peter McClintock, the [...]
Ernani, Metropolitan Opera, New York
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on March 20, 2008
Twenty-three years have passed since the Met last ventured Ernani. Perhaps they should have waited a bit longer.Pier Luigi Samaritani sparse designs, created in 1983, decorate Verdi glorious score and Piave creaky libretto with clunky window-dressing. Samaritani staging scheme forces the cast to clamber awkward steps when not striking picturesque poses. Peter McClintock, the current [...]
What’s On: Clubs
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on February 21, 2008
Alleycatz (2409 Yonge St. 416-481-6865): Urban Siren tonight; Soular Fri. %26#38; Sat.; open stage jam every Sun.; Swing House Band every Tues.; Jasmin Bailey %26#38; Co. every Wed.Annex Wreckroom (794 Bathurst St.): Anniversary party Sat. (SuperNova 3 p.m.); Winter Caribbean Festival with Dwayne [...]
Foursome sounded like magic
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on January 18, 2008
Most classical music in Toronto is about grand gestures symphonies and operas and visiting international stars. But some of the most beautiful and memorable moments can be much more intimate and purely homegrown.A case in point came last night as big and [...]
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, [...]
Happenings
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on December 15, 2007
Central Florida Community College will host Miami-based Flamenco Puro performance at 7:30 p.m. today at CFCC, Ocala campus, 3001 S.W. College Road. Free. First come, first served. 854-2322, ext. 1728BARKITECTURE KICK-OFF: All 29 doghouses and cat condos from Ocala’s public art project Barkitecture will be on display from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday [...]