Alice in Wonderland behind the Iron curtain
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on September 24, 2008
A new world lurks in Leila Ataya’s acrylic canvases. The Russian artist has dipped into her own background for her latest solo exhibition, “Long Story about Life”. “Most of my current works depict a magical world, where illusion and reality blur,” she says.
“The represented world is like a fly-agaric; so bright, attractive and beautiful, but [...]
Curtain down on ‘truly exceptional’ Beijing Games
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on August 24, 2008
The Beijing Olympics, played out against a background of political intrigue and featuring 16 days of compelling and controversial action, drew to a spectacular close on Sunday.
International Olympic Committee chief Jacques Rogge described the Games as “truly exceptional” in a lavish closing ceremony at the Bird’s Nest stadium which culminated in the handing over of [...]
Curtain call for game 150
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on June 11, 2008
And Curtain will enter the record books at the Demons because he will be the youngest to achieve life membership when he runs on to Bellerive Oval for the second versus third clash against Clarence.
Debuting as a 16-year-old in 2000 in the Statewide League, the now 24-year-old has been a regular midfield cog in the [...]
Stratford raises another curtain
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on May 25, 2008
Right Here’s parents were first thrilled by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival at its birth when the Bard and all the world and the players and the amazed audience were under a tent.
That amazing tent vanished in the 1950s, but tradition of Shakespeare at Stratford continues this week when the festival’s 2008 season opens tomorrow with [...]
The West End isn’t facing the final curtain
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on May 14, 2008
This buzzy, caffeine-addicted British impresario ought to be on top of the world. Two of her Broadway productions - Tom Stoppard’s Rock’ n’ Roll and the old farce Boeing-Boeing - have just been nominated for 10 Tony Awards in New York, the US theatre’s equivalent of the Oscars.
A host of other Brits have also been [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
living This house not for mere mortals
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 20, 2008
East Hampton, N.Y.%26ndash;The house is off-limits to children, and adults are asked to sign a waiver when they enter. The main concern is the concrete floor, which rises and falls like the surface of a vast, bumpy chocolate chip cookie.But, for Arakawa, 71, [...]
News & Features `I brought the light back in’
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 20, 2008
Anne Mroczkowski is an award-winning co-host of CityNews at Six on Citytv. At 20 consecutive seasons, she and Gord Martineau are the longest-serving anchor team in Canadian television news. Mroczkowski divides her time between her Bloor West Village city home and a country place in Thornbury. When not at home or work, the Hamilton-born, Toronto-raised [...]
columnists Torch relay a magnet for trouble
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 19, 2008
Early one morning, around 6 a.m. it was, a solitary spectator sat in the stands of a boxing arena in Barcelona.He’d come, without fanfare and without entourage, to witness a preliminary round bout featuring a black South African flyweight the first athlete of colour to represent that country in the Olympics after decades as an [...]