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Musical memory memory
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I shut out all the lights, sat down behind my desk, the little one facing the window in the far corner of the room, and lit two tea lights, as is my custom. I...
Musical memory memory memory
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Drop-jawed and dead-eyed, they sat soundless, and stared. It was employee #3263827, the “Arts Editor,” who spoke first, in a halting voice.
“Do you have thing. Um... that thing.”
The response from employee #5516342, the...
Bloody brilliant
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How often does a play come along that has the audience rollicking with laughter while, at the same time, ripping their hearts out?
Kevin Loring’s play Where the Blood Mixes began its life several years...
Just turn off your cellphone
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Advice for people going to see Headspace: you should probably turn off your cell-phones. If it goes off, neither the actors nor the audience will bother to mock you; the script does that for...
Cupcakes : Out of control, Art : In your budget
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“Winnipeg is known nationally and internationally as a real hot bed of visual arts,” said Shawna Dempsey, co-director of Mentoring Artist’s for Women’s Art (MAWA). Dempsey would know; she is a well-regarded performance and...
Essentially a Playlist : “Tony Danza in the bathroom”
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The recent brouhaha over changing lyrics to our national anthem (personally, I like Gail Asper’s suggestion of “in all of us command” over “thou dost”) got me thinking about lyrics. Not just the casually...
CD Review, Joanna Newsom, “Have One On Me”
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Long a fan of Joanna Newsom, there’s no way that I can possibly provide a neutral, unbiased review here. Sorry.
She could record herself making hand-to-armpit fart noises for three hours and I would be...
