To start, a short, sweet story: “Russell Yuristy was the first contemporary artist I knew,” recalls Alexandra Badzak, who grew up playing on Duck Boat, built by Yuristy beside the South Saskatchewan River in 1972. “Here was a piece of contemporary public art that I was
A few days before this interview Desmond Cole went to a huge LCBO in downtown Toronto in the middle of the day to purchase something. As soon as he entered the store and starting looking around, a security guard started to follow him. Cole is a young
The pianist Stewart Goodyear and the NAC Orchestra's principal cello Rachel Mercer have known each other for a long time. They first met at the Royal Conservatory of Music when they were part of a piano trio with violinist Susanne Hou. Both were 13. Mercer recalled in
Julie Stewart and her husband James Stanley were at a point in their lives together where they needed a challenge. So, living on the south shore of Nova Scotia, the idea of sailing surfaced. Julie Stewart is a well-known Canadian actor with TV credits such
Recently the leaders of three major national arts institutions were talking about the importance of cultural diplomacy for Canada. They might have been thinking about Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The 44 year old Montrealer is certainly an ambassador for Canadian classical music. He holds two of the most important
One of the greatest jazz guitarists ever born; barely able to write a cheque, let alone manage his life; strangled and dumped by an unknown killer into a Los Angeles rooftop swimming pool in 1984: How could any playwright resist the story of Lenny Breau? Ottawa writer/actor
Sarah Hatton grew up in Barbados and considered herself to be “somewhat of an expert” on the coral reefs that surround the Caribbean island. Then, years later, she read her daughter’s Grade 6 science fair project titled Why is the Coral Dying? “The current scientific facts
Monday night’s Chamberfest concert at the Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre featured Poland’s Apollon Musagète quartet. This young, all-male ensemble — violinists Pawel Zalejski and Bartosz Zachlod; violist Piotr Szumiel and cellist Piotr Skweres — favours an on-stage uniform of bespoke plaid suits, patent leather shoes,
The cowboy is an iconic figure of the great plains of North America. In South America, on the pampas that runs north to south from Brazil to the tip of Argentina, the gaucho is equally iconic. They are part of legend, folklore and literature and
Mexico has become a killing field where drug cartels and other criminals take lives without regard for the impact of their violence and with little effective intervention by representatives of the state. We hear the bloody statistics but we don't hear much about the gender
