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 [...]
The final curtain
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on May 3, 2008
FRANK Lloyd Wright was an arrogant man and he cultivated what you might consider a shortcoming into what he saw as a virtue. It is far nobler, to paraphrase Wright, to be honestly arrogant than to be dishonestly self-effacing.
And he had the genius to carry it off in style, even dressing the part, capes and [...]
Gary Carter wasn’t shy about curtain calls
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on May 3, 2008
Gary Carter was the king of the curtain call, a guy whose signature fist pump would come to define both him and the swaggering Mets of the middle to late 1980s.
Not even Carter knows how many curtain calls he gave since introducing his move 23 years ago after hitting a 10th-inning home run to give [...]
Canada Vanity, thy name is . . .
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on February 3, 2008
First it was the Conservatives’ 2008 calendar. Now it’s the government lobby in the Commons that’s been plastered with photographs of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Behind the curtains on the government side, photos of all former Conservative prime ministers John A. Macdonald, John Diefenbaker, Brian Mulroney are gone. In their place. it’s wall-to-wall Harper, [...]
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 [...]
‘Iron Curtain’ descends to keep council estate at bay
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on December 15, 2007
After years of sleepless nights spent listening to blaring car stereos, revving scooters and drug deals, the well-heeled people of the French town of Cuincy have found a way to combat the rowdy behaviour of the residents of a nearby council estate.
Bernard Wagon, the mayor of Cuincy, has taken the dramatic step - in a [...]
Entertainment listings for Nov. 2-8, 2007
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on December 15, 2007
FLORIDA BLACK EXPO: Expo will feature more than 200 exhibitors and national guest speakers; event runs through Saturday at the Times Union Center and the Prime Osborn III Convention Center in Jacksonville. 904-403-6960CHURCH SALE: The Ocala West United Methodist Church will hold its annual Junque, Clothing and Bake Sale from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. [...]
A glimpse of life behind the curtain
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on December 15, 2007
I took my final bows in “The Nutcracker” Sunday. The Marion Performing Ballet continues the show this weekend, but my dance career is finished. Without casualties.Some notes from the ballet’s embedded reporter:I did not trip any fellow cast members, but I did step on a gift-wrapped prop. Also, I nearly walked into the girls’ dressing [...]