Michigan Avenue runs right through the Motor City — a giant spoke on a giant wheel. Sixto Rodriguez knows all about Michigan Avenue. He was born in 1942 at 831 Michigan, above a bar, the sixth child of Mexican immigrants parents. "I was born on top of
If Amiel Gladstone had been otherwise engaged a few years back, Onegin, the hip musical opening the new theatre season at the National Arts Centre next week, might never have happened. Playwright/director Gladstone together with musician/composer Veda Hille created Onegin based on Tchaikovsky’s popular opera Eugene
The late 1960s were perilous days. It was the height of the Cold War, as the Soviet Union and the United States fought for nuclear supremacy, and as, on a quiet street in Prince Edward Island, another arms race was fought for supremacy in, umm,
Pierre Théberge is back under the spotlight after leaving the public stage in 2009 when he retired, amid considerable controversy, as the director of the National Gallery of Canada. His re-appearance, at age 75, comes in a two-volume, French-language biography by Montreal art critic Nicolas Mavrikakis.
In Wayne Johnston’s world the novels are mythic and the characters come back. His latest novel is just that. First Snow, Last Light is the latest in a trilogy that began with The Colony of Unrequited Dreams and continued with The Custodian of Paradise. The glue that
Here are some must-see shows in classical music and dance this fall. Classical: Sept. 6: Daniel Tselyakov is the son of the excellent Russian-Canadian pianist and pedagogue Alexander Tselyakov. And he is one of several young musicians in a deep pipeline of keyboard talent coming out of
Twenty years ago, Sean Wilson was a 22 year old graphic designer working in a struggling business when his father Neil proposed something strange. “We had to do a writers festival. I thought that was the silliest thing I had ever heard. I just couldn’t imagine
This will be a hectic fall for the members of the National Arts Centre Orchestra with a major tour of Western Canada on the schedule along with a major festival that embraces the Ideas of North. As well the nearly 50-year-old orchestra has begun the process
Canada’s storytelling community has lost one of its leading figures with the death of Lanark County’s Jan Andrews. In a Facebook post on the weekend, her partner Jennifer Cayley wrote that “Jan is gone. Just after 10:30 on Saturday Sept. 2nd on what might possibly be
A few years ago, Roland Graham, the music director of Southminster United Church, acquired a venerable but still very viable Heintzman grand piano. He raised the funds to restore the inner workings of the instrument and, once that was completed, he started the Master Piano Recital
