Founder and original artistic director of the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra performing at a concert ...
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MOSHE DENBURG: MUSIC UNITES THE WORLD
MOSHE DENBURG: MUSIC UNITES THE WORLD
Founder and original artistic director of the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra performing at a concert by the Tzimmes ensemble at the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture. Photo: Naomi Arney Sur ...
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MARVELLOUS MELBOURNE
MARVELLOUS MELBOURNE
You really can’t fault Melburnians for feeling a bit smug about their city. After all, The Economist Inte ...
You really can’t fault Melburnians for feeling a bit smug about their city. After all, The Economist Intelligence Unit, the research and analysis arm of The Economist magazine, once called Melbourne t ...
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GRAHAM HARROP: A Few Strokes Of The Pen And Then A Funny Line
GRAHAM HARROP: A Few Strokes Of The Pen And Then A Funny Line
“Are you a late bloomer?” I ask. “Definitely, yes, absolutely,” says 76-year-old Graham Harrop from his h ...
“Are you a late bloomer?” I ask. “Definitely, yes, absolutely,” says 76-year-old Graham Harrop from his home studio in North Vancouver, where he works three days a week drawing editorial cartoons for ...
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LINDA BAILEY: A TWINKLE IN HER EYE
LINDA BAILEY: A TWINKLE IN HER EYE
“I was very curious about reading and writing,” recalls celebrated author Linda Bailey about her Winnipeg ...
“I was very curious about reading and writing,” recalls celebrated author Linda Bailey about her Winnipeg childhood. “I knew all my nursery rhymes and fairy tales, but there weren’t a lot of books in ...
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Barney Bentall: Push And Pull
Barney Bentall: Push And Pull
A Vancouver favourite in the ’80s and ’90s, Barney Bentall and The Legendary Hearts were rocking up a sto ...
A Vancouver favourite in the ’80s and ’90s, Barney Bentall and The Legendary Hearts were rocking up a storm until infighting at his record company took him out of the public eye. Now, happily ensconce ...
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Smoke And Mirrors
Smoke And Mirrors
He will forever be known as the Cigarette Smoking Man, the creepy and sinister operative in the TV series ...
He will forever be known as the Cigarette Smoking Man, the creepy and sinister operative in the TV series The X-Files. While heroes Scully and Mulder were investigating the paranormal, the Cigarette S ...
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Tony Parsons: My Life In News
Tony Parsons: My Life In News
He didn't want to be an anchor. At least initially. “I thought law would be my main choice. People seemed ...
He didn't want to be an anchor. At least initially. “I thought law would be my main choice. People seemed to make money from it and enjoy it, so I had my eye on that,” says Tony Parsons, the man who b ...
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Happy Town
Happy Town
The sun is shining, the temperature is a perfect 25 degrees and there’s a warm breeze coming off the Paci ...
The sun is shining, the temperature is a perfect 25 degrees and there’s a warm breeze coming off the Pacific Ocean. I’m in Santa Monica, California, LA’s waterfront cousin, 40 minutes west of the city ...
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Janet Austin: For Queen and Country
Janet Austin: For Queen and Country
Tucked away behind the rhododendrons, hostas and hellebores two-and-a-half kilometres west of the Legisla ...
Tucked away behind the rhododendrons, hostas and hellebores two-and-a-half kilometres west of the Legislative Assembly, Victoria’s Government House is a local landmark. The surrounding gardens featuri ...
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Cynthia Dale: Entertainment’s Triple Threat
Cynthia Dale: Entertainment’s Triple Threat
“I’m the lowly producer. That’s what they call me. I’m learning.” Actor Cynthia Dale, well-known for her ...
“I’m the lowly producer. That’s what they call me. I’m learning.” Actor Cynthia Dale, well-known for her mastery of stage, screen and television, reflects on her new role. Not only is she the lead in ...
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Chef Tojo: Bridging Cultures
Chef Tojo: Bridging Cultures
“Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials.” The phras ...
“Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials.” The phrase is attributed to Nathan Myhrvold, the American author of the six-volume series Modernist Cuis ...
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A Safe Harbour
A Safe Harbour
“Just about everything in my life is because I was blown off course. I never intended to sail to Saturna ...
“Just about everything in my life is because I was blown off course. I never intended to sail to Saturna (her Gulf Island home) but I got blown off course. I never intended to leave the newspaper busi ...
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My Eyes Are Never Stopping
My Eyes Are Never Stopping
"They take me on trips," says Victoria landscape painter Anne Meggitt. “Shireen will book us somewhere to ...
"They take me on trips," says Victoria landscape painter Anne Meggitt. “Shireen will book us somewhere to stay and Brett will do all the driving.” Road trips are commonplace for Anne, her youngest dau ...
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Peter Legge: Empire Builder
Peter Legge: Empire Builder
If you watch TV and purchase TV Week to check the listings – and 30,000 people do – you’ve met Peter Legg ...
If you watch TV and purchase TV Week to check the listings – and 30,000 people do – you’ve met Peter Legge or at least one of his publications. TV Week is one of 30 print and digital properties that m ...
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Tasmania’s Poor Devils
Tasmania’s Poor Devils
My wife and I are in downtown Hobart standing in front of the wooden hut that once housed Australian expl ...
My wife and I are in downtown Hobart standing in front of the wooden hut that once housed Australian explorer Douglas Mawson and his Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1912. (The hut is a replica. T ...
| by John Thomson