The publicity shy Lalji family of Vancouver, the owners of Larco Corporation, wishes to add 171 “long-stay” rooms to one of their properties, the venerable Château Laurier, a National Historic Site of Canada. Over a year ago, the first public showing of a planned addition sparked
In March 2016, I visited the (Dale) Chihuly exhibit at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona. I went at night. The papery heat of the day drained away. Walking the chilly, dimly lit paths, I mistook bendy-armed saguaro and stocky barrel cacti for people.
The JUNO-nominated pianist David Jalbert has another passion. He's a confirmed tennis fanatic. In fact, just before this interview he had booked a game. "I haven’t been playing that long. I learned as an adult and then understood the woes of all adult piano learners." He's careful about
When does art become fashion? Or, to flip that aesthetic coin, when does fashion become art? Answers may be found at AXENÉO7 in Gatineau on March 28 when arts and fashion come together to raise money for the artist-run centre’s programs. Seventeen artists and designers from
The Berkshire Hills encompass the Litchfield, Connecticut area where Moses Pendleton lives and walks in the New England countryside that echoes with the footsteps of the transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. The founder and artistic director of the innovative dance theatre company MOMIX
Petr Cancura says, tongue in cheek, that he has been looking for some divine intervention with the weather gods to make the sun shine on the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival this summer and avoida deluge of the kind that dampened spirits and ticket sales in
You have to wonder how Patr Cancura fits in all the work, what with his role as the programming director at the Ottawa Jazz Festival, teaching and many gigs, but somehow he does. The Energizer Bunny of the Ottawa jazz scene is stepping onto the NAC
“I love you” doesn't slip easily from Daphne’s tongue. But they are words that her grown daughter Claudette hungers to hear from her mother. That disconnect — which spirals outward to include Claudette’s sister Valerie, their dead sibling Cloe and multiple generations of black women with
For young boys and girls of a certain inclination, the dream of running away to join a circus seems a very acceptable alternative to humdrum reality. Yoann Bourgeois is one who actually acted on his dreams. "When I was a young boy," the French choreographer and
As a much-decorated singer, radio personality and raconteur, Murray McLauchlan has been a very public figure for more than 45 years. But when he got the call that he was being honoured with a lifetime achievement award from the governor general, he had to pause
