I know, I know, I wrote about curling during the Olympics. But with the Canadian Men’s Curling Championship (a.k.a. the Tim Hortons Brier) currently being decided right here in Regina, did you really think I could choose any other topic this week? Besides, curling, despite having been around since the 16th century (the first identifiable …
Terry Teachout blogs a snippet of one of his current theatre reviews for The Wall Street Journal at About Last Night: “Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide” is back on Broadway—almost. New York City Opera, whose Lincoln Center headquarters is a block from Broadway and slightly north of the theater district, has revived its 1982 production of Bernstein’s …
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Here’s a review of the New York City Opera revival of The Most Happy Fella I blogged about earlier. The critic liked it. Ah, but if only he’d seen my performance…oh, look! There I am now!
Now you can Google Mars. Wow!
A new kind of weather radar being tested in Oklahoma promises to revolutionize weather forecasting by allowing meteorologists to accurately map what’s happening in the lowest part of the atmosphere–the area where storms generally form. In particular, it should be able to pinpoint the location of tornadoes. Some details: Current measurements of the lower three …
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Dancers at the Mackenzie Art Gallery‘s spring fundraising event “March.” More photos here.
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I am very (very, very!) pleased to announce that I have acquired a New York literary agent to market my fiction (both YA and adult): the estimable Ethan Ellenberg. It’s been an exciting couple of days. With DAW’s paperback release of Lost in Translation coming up, and a contract in hand but not yet signed, …
Last night I was busy over on one of my other blogs, The Willetts on Wine. If you’re interested, check out reports on two recent functions of the Society for American Wines here in Regina: the garlic-in-everything-(even-the-ice-cream) dinner at the Creek in Cathedral Bistro back in January, and the all-Cabernet Sauvignon dinner at The Crushed …
I’ve been thinking about trying voice-recognition software, but maybe I should hold out for this.
