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Continue reading →: Awesome YouTube vids: Lost Girl & Minx
Come on, admit it, you spend a significant amount of time – a significant amount of time – on YouTube too. Don’t judge me. Here are two of my favourite fan vids for Lost Girl (Bo and Lauren, played by Anna Silk and Zoie Palmer) and All My Children (Bianca and Marissa, aka…
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Continue reading →: Painting Willow Quartet
Those of you who know me know that I’ve done a helluva lot of set painting for Alumnae Theatre, especially last season and mostly with set designer Ed “Eduardo” Rosing. And, like working for the mob, you don’t really quit working with Ed – or Alumnae for that matter –…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Irish Players’ Shining City coming to Alumnae Theatre
Hey again – I know, second post of the day. Busy times, chickens. It’s theatre season – go figure. Just learned from actor Stephen Flett that the Toronto Irish Players have an upcoming run of Conor McPherson’s play Shining City on Alumnae Theatre’s main stage (Nov 3 – 19) – and,…
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Continue reading →: How sweet this jazz/pop fusion duo CD is…
The weather is decidedly glum, but I’m feeling good today. Inspired. And I blame Shannon Butcher and Ross MacIntyre – and their fabulous new CD How Sweet It Is. Shannon and Ross have known each other since they were in high school at Cawthra Park School for the Arts, and…
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Continue reading →: More on Alumnae Theatre’s Write Now readings
Hey all – Here are some more details on Alumnae Theatre’s annual Write Now event, the readings presented this past Sunday in the Alumnae Theatre studio. The following is from Alumnae’s blog, posted by company blogger Tina McCulloch: http://alumnaetheatre.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/write-now-2011-adaptable-austen/ Thanks, Tina – especially for tracking down the actors’ names (the program only included…
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Continue reading →: Sunday night boob tube
Sunday night just got an extra dose of magic realism with the addition of Once Upon A Time to its evening line-up (CTV at 7 p.m. and again on ABC at 8 p.m.). And I gotta say, the premiere lived up to the great promo. This show features Ginnifer Goodwin (Big…
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Continue reading →: All My Sons, ROM, zombies & Jane Austen
No, this is not some wacky new mash-up – though an Arthur Miller/zombie mash-up might be fun. Hmm… Anyway, my weekend artsy adventures started on Friday night at Fairview Library Theatre for Amicus Productions’ All My Sons. As I mentioned in my last post, this was a special treat as…
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Continue reading →: Shannon Butcher launches How Sweet It Is CD
Hey there. So before I take off into the night/weekend for more arts and culture adventures, I wanted to mention a fabulous upcoming music event, featuring the fabulous jazz songstress Shannon Butcher (who became the proud mommy of baby Charlotte in July). Shannon, partnered with Ross MacIntyre for this project, will…
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Continue reading →: Downton Abbey – season one finale
WARNING: Spoilers ahead. Wow. So I’ve been watching Downton Abbey on Vision on Wednesday nights and the season one – or “series one,” as they would say in the UK – aired last night. The drama of the 90-minute episode was heightened by a neighbourhood power outage during the last…
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