Candide in New York, Candide in Regina

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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Photo of the Day: Leftovers

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A good review for The Most Happy Fella

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!

Is this cool or what?

Now you can Google Mars. Wow!

New weather radar can pinpoint tornadoes

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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Photo of the Day: Spring Suffers a Setback

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Bonus Photo of the (Yester) Day: Fire Dance

Dancers at the Mackenzie Art Gallery‘s spring fundraising event “March.” More photos here.

Photo of the Day: A Damp Grey Photo for a Damp Grey Day

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I have an agent!

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, …

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Big update at The Willetts on Wine

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 …

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I think, therefore I type

I’ve been thinking about trying voice-recognition software, but maybe I should hold out for this.

Water–and life?–on a moon of Saturn

The picture in the previous post was MY photo of the day, but here’s the REAL photo of the day, a Cassini image of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Why? Because NASA scientists believe Enceladus has liquid water. And: “‘We realize that this is a radical conclusion — that we may have evidence for liquid water within …

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