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Read My Book: Magebane

QC  and Bridges, weekly free-circulation entertainment/lifestyle magazines put out by the Regina Leader Post and the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, respectively, have both just run what I wrote for their popular “Read My Book” feature focusing on local authors’ works. Here’s what I had to say about Magebane (the online version here at the Star-Phoenix’s website is …

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My review of Globe Theatre’s production of Marion Bridge…

…has already shown up online, even though it won’t appear in print until tomorrow. This is the first time I’ve seen something I’ve written pop up that far ahead of the ink-on-paper version, though maybe I just haven’t noticed until now. The review begins: I confess that I went into the opening night performance of …

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My preview of this weekend’s South Saskatchewan Youth Orchestra Christmas brunch…

…is in today’s Leader Post. It begins: What could be better than a wonderful Christmas brunch onstage at the Conexus Arts Centre? How about a wonderful Christmas brunch followed by a performance by the South Saskatchewan Youth Orchestra? That’s exactly the hard-to-imagine-a-better-than event scheduled for this Sunday. A silent auction and food kick off the …

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My preview of the Regina Symphony Orchestra concert featuring pianist Hung-Kuan Chen…

…is online at the Regina Leader Post. It begins: Pianist Hung-Kuan Chen isn’t one to shy away from a challenge. Neither is Regina Symphony Orchestra maestro Victor Sawa.Which is why Saturday’s Mosaic Masterworks concert at the Conexus Arts Centre features Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2, which Sawa calls “arguably the toughest concerto ever written.” …

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My preview of Globe Theatre’s production of Peter Pan…

…is in today’s Regina Leader Post. It begins: For Ruth Smillie, artistic director of Globe Theatre, the key to Globe’s upcoming production of J.M. Barrie’s classic tale of Peter Pan is that children don’t differentiate between reality and make-believe the way adults to. Smillie, who is directing the production, recalls that this past summer she …

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