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Continue reading →: Happy Pride! Happy jazz!
Happy Pride everyone! Pride Toronto 2011 kicks off today, with the official rainbow flag-raising ceremony on Monday at City Hall. It’s 10 days of celebration, ending with the parade and after-partying next Sunday. For more info and what’s on at Pride this year, check out their official website: http://www.pridetoronto.com/ I’m…
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Continue reading →: kd lang, Dorothy Wilson & Father’s Day
So, wow, what a Friday night/weekend of fun and festivities. kd lang and the Siss Boom Bang played a free concert on Friday night as part of Luminato, on the festival hub stage in the David Pecaut Square at Metro Hall – and they were fantastic! Their opening band, LA-based…
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Continue reading →: Sugar, Sugar
Why have I been learning the vocal harmony for Sugar, Sugar by The Archies this week? And why am I rehearsing a song with this tune on Saturday? Check in on Monday to find out! In the meantime, here’s a vid of Sugar, Sugar – featuring clips of band: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M91fc7sC93k&feature=fvst
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Continue reading →: I like Beethoven, but…
… not when it’s played over and over. And over again. When I arrived at the office this morning, I heard Für Elise playing. Repeatedly. And quite loudly too. After a bit of hunting around, I discovered it was originating from a BlackBerry that had been left on a desk in…
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Continue reading →: What would you pick?
So I was at the Jays game on Friday night (they lost to the Red Sox 5-1) and while the outcome was disappointing, the atmosphere at the Dome and, especially, the company I was in was fun. I was with my friend Dee and four of her co-workers, and –…
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Continue reading →: I would recommend…
Hey all – busy times and I’m back at the office now, so I’ll be brief. Stuff I’ve seen/experienced in the past week or so that I would recommend: Movies: Midnight in Paris; The Princess of Montpensier; Potiche Plays: InspiraTO festival of 10-minute plays – this is over now, so…
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Continue reading →: Happy birthday, Johnny Depp!
Okay, so I’m a day late – but I have a very good excuse. It was my birthday too – and I was out with my mum (who coincidentally picked June 9 to come in to T.O. for our annual brunch/neighbourhood walk excursion – my Mother’s Day present to her).…
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Continue reading →: Inspirational theatre
Hey kids! How about this gorgeous spring weather? Finally some sunshine – though we did have quite the light and sound show here in T.O. early this morning. Saw some amazing and inspirational theatre this past Friday night/weekend: the blueSound program at the InspiraTO festival of 10-minute plays (Alumnae Theatre)…
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Continue reading →: Strange spam
I don’t know about you, but I’m the kinda gal who likes things to be tidy. Not in a Stepford wives/OCD kinda way, but just neat in a non-robot/non-clinical type deal thing. So, no surprise, I like to regularly purge my e-mail of old messages and spam. Especially spam. And…
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Continue reading →: Still here
Writing for two blogs these days is kind of like having two children – and one (the bigger, louder one) gets most of the attention, while the other waits quietly by for a snippet of my time. This will all be ending soon, my friends, as I’m officially retiring as Alumnae Theatre’s…
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