Shrek: The Musical.
This looks…interesting
It’s The Shatner Show at Uppercase Gallery in Calgary: Get ready for the summer of Shatner! An exhibition and publication of artwork depicting William Shatner, featuring the work of over seventy artists of diverse illustrative styles from Canada and the US. The caliber of participating artists is outstanding. Ohhhhhkay…
Mars…
…as art. Gorgeous! (Via Instapundit.)
Saskatchewan author up for major science fiction award
Alas, it isn’t me. Nevertheless, congratulations to Barbara Sapergia, whose novel Dry (Coteau Books) is one of the finalists for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science fiction novel of 2006. (I suspect Barbara doesn’t self-identify as a science fiction writer, based on her biography on the Coteau site, so this may …
Become a science fiction writer…
…and help save civilization: Looking to prevent the next terrorist attack, the Homeland Security Department is tapping into the wild imaginations of a group of self-described “deviant” thinkers: science-fiction writers. As I like to say, science fiction is a vaccine against future shock.
Sailing, sailing
Although I’ve rarely sailed, I’ve been in love with the idea of sailing ever since I was a kid and devoured–several times over–the Swallows and Amazons books by Arthur Ransome. (Used my own money to order them all the way from England–that’s how much I loved them.) Sailboats are expensive and awkward things to own …
Planets, planets everywhere
It’s been about five years since I last wrote about the search for extrasolar planets–that is, planets orbiting other stars. As I noted then, the idea that the universe is full of planets has been so firmly established in our minds by science fiction that it’s amazing to realize that we only found the first …
SF Canada website updated
I’ve done a small update to the SF Canada website: the most interesting feature is a long interview with Nancy Kress, conducted by Celu Amberstone. Current news is posted regularly on the SF Canada news blog. SF Canada is the professional association of speculative fiction writers in Canada. I’m the administrative assistant and webmaster.
Pore Jud…
…may well be dead, but at least he’s not Ed–not any more. We wrapped up Regina Lyric Light Opera‘s production of Oklahoma! yesterday, and, as the rural correspondents of the Weyburn Review were wont to say when I was editor there, “A Good Time Was Had By All.” I received a lot of compliments on …
Listen to me sing!
I finally got around to posting some new music files on my website. These are from earlier this year, when I sang with Regina quartet Livingston Square in the all-Gerswhin concert “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Gershwin!” at Government House. The other three members of the quartet were Evan Purchase, Dianne Burrows and Carolyn Speirs; …
Well, it sure worked for The Producers…
Mel Brooks is turning another of his old movies into a musical: According to The Strip’s podcast interview with Tony Award-winner Mel Brooks, the legendary writer/comedian’s new musical Young Frankenstein will most likely open at the Hilton Theatre sometime around Halloween of this year.Maybe it’s just because I’m currently in Oklahoma!, but I suddenly have …
Two shows down, three to go
Well, we (Regina Lyric Light Opera, that is) have two performances of Oklahoma! under our belts (or suspenders, actually, for the most part) and it’s going really well. Good houses both opening night and last night, and standing ovations both nights. I’m enjoying playing Jud. We’ve humanized him quite a bit from some productions, so …
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