Tag: newspapers

Examining autumn, reviewing Shakespeare

I have two pieces in today’s Regina LeaderPost. On the front page of the Weekender section you can read my article on the science of autumn, which comes complete with a rather odd picture of me holding up a leaf and looking slightly deranged. Then, in the Arts and Life section, I’ve got a review …

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Preview of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is online

My preview of Globe Theatre‘s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is online now at the LeaderPost. An excerpt: For audiences, it’s not physical vocabulary but Shakespeare’s 400-year-old verbal vocabulary that may intimidate. But Geoffrey Whynot, who plays Theseus and Oberon, points out that “in real life we don’t necessarily hear every word someone speaks. …

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I’ve been promoted to inspector!

Usually I think the Regina Leader Post does a pretty good job headlining my science column each week, but this week’s choice, for my column on high-tech cooking, is just weird: “Tips from a gadget inspector.“ Could have been worse, though. They could have titled it “Tips from Inspector Gadget.”

Photo of the Day that was Actually in the LeaderPost Yesterday: Let There Be Light

This photo by Roy Antal was in the Regina LeaderPost yesterday. Yep, that’s me at the left, with Rob Huber behind the piano and Robert Ursan seated. The three of us will be the hosts for Saturday night’s “Let There Be Light” fundraising show for the Regina Performing Arts Centre.

Photo of the Day that was Actually in the LeaderPost Yesterday: Let There Be Light

This photo by Roy Antal was in the Regina LeaderPost yesterday. Yep, that’s me at the left, with Rob Huber behind the piano and Robert Ursan seated. The three of us will be the hosts for Saturday night’s “Let There Be Light” fundraising show for the Regina Performing Arts Centre.

I’m on the front page!

Well, the front page of the Weekender section, anyway, of the Regina Leader Post. A lengthy interview with me appeared today; you can read it here.

My dad always said I could be whatever I wanted to be…

…and that’s especially true of the Internet, where a false persona is only a few mouse clicks away. Witness this slide show of real people and the avatars they use in online games. I don’t know what it says about me, but I’m more uncomfortable being anonymous online than I am being myself. I even …

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All Sawyers look alike

Reports the San Francisco Sentinel: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger pledges a quick replacement for California green czar Robert Sawyer whom the governor fired this week. The photo accompanying the story? A picture of Robert J. Sawyer, noted Canadian science fiction writer. Oops!

Self-contradictory headline:

“Study: Abstinence doesn’t delay sex.” Hint to headline writers: even though you’ve got limited space, there are certain words you cannot leave out. Like the subject of the sentence, for example. In this case, “abstinence” is actually an adjective modifying the word “programs.” Leave out “programs” and abstinence becomes the subject of the sentence itself, …

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Laura, the complete story

I’ve started writing some entertainment stories for the Regina Leader Post on a freelance basis. My first one ran today, but unfortunately was curtailed rather drastically, so that it ended extremely abruptly. So here’s the complete story, as it read in a perfect world where newspapers have unlimited space and brilliant copy is never edited: …

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