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 [...]
Curtain comes down on Coca-Cola Under-21 League
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on May 3, 2008
In the first game of the curtain-raiser, runners-up Portmore United will play Reno.
Harbour View will receive their championship trophy at the end of the game, which begins at 6:00 pm, while the Portmore/Reno encounter kicks off at 4:00 pm.
With only one round of matches to be played Portmore can still finish on the same number [...]
What he really wants to do is perform
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on February 15, 2008
In its sixth year, Toronto’s annual Winterfolk roots music festival might %26ndash; just might %26ndash; make a profit.That’s not festival founder and artistic director Brian Gladstone’s biggest concern, but a profitable event means the former research engineer and inventor of power transformers [...]
Sports Prospects for Canadian skating much brighter
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on January 21, 2008
VANCOUVERIt’s a skewed perspective, nationals, because every medallist is a Canadian. Yet there was more than a glimmer of something shiny this way coming dovetailing nicely with the Vancouver Olympics two years hence in the showtime arrival of a new figure skating generation for this country. Not a moment too soon.A sport that for years [...]