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“#Two paintings by a beloved Nova Scotia folk artist have vanished. Can they have gone far?” One day in the early 1950s, Van Davis Odell pulled off Highway 1 in Marshalltown, N.S., to make what would prove a fortuitous purchase. The Manhattan businesswoman was driving around with two friends in search of crafts and antiques,…
“#Sheila Heti redefines what a novel can be” It’s one of the last warm nights in October. I meet Sheila Heti at Bar Mordecai in Toronto for a drink before our recorded interview over dinner. She orders a gin and tonic and I have a dirty martini. It’s early, and the bar is empty apart…
“#The unbearable beauty of Linda Evangelista” Last September, the Canadian supermodel Linda Evangelista announced on Instagram that she was suing Zeltiq, a U.S. aesthetics company, over a botched cosmetic procedure that allegedly left her disfigured and unable to work. News of the case, which will be working its way through civil courts for some time…
“#’Xena: Warrior Princess’ taught me how to be a powerful woman” Kai Cheng Thom: Lucy Lawless’s Xena showed me a way to be feminine, and at the same time strong, fierce and unstoppable I recently changed my cellphone ringtone to Joseph LoDuca’s The Warrior Princess, the once-iconic leitmotif from the television show Xena: Warrior Princess….
“#East India’s Ektara gets reinterpreted as this modern string instrument for today’s folk musicians!” The Sukhtara is a modern reinterpretation of East India’s Ektara string instrument, whose origins date back a millennium. Musical instruments have helped characterize cultures for millennia. In East India, sometime between 1700 B.C. and 7th-century C.E., the Ektara was produced and…
“#I embrace the term ‘Black writer’ but racism is rarely at the heart of my work” ‘Most Black British novelists and poets are not writing directly about racism; they’re channelling their creativity into everything else that we people of the human race experience,’ writes Bernardine Evaristo in ‘Manifesto’ When her seventh novel, Girl, Woman, Other,…
“#Themes of class and patriarchy in the classic opera ‘La Traviata’ still resonate today” One fancifully sinister scene in the Canadian Opera Company’s 2021-22 performance of ‘La Traviata’ encapsulates why we return to the opera time and time again Traviata (Courtesy of Chris Hutcheson/COC) The Canadian Opera Company returns to live performances for the back…
“#How the most connected man in Toronto came back from death” Bob Ramsay is one of Toronto’s pre-eminent connectors, a man with 5,000 personal email addresses in his computer. The communications professional writes opinion pieces for media outlets and speeches for CEOs, and runs a speakers’ series that regularly presents thinkers from Niall Ferguson to…
“#New titles from Emily St. John Mandel, Rawi Hage and other 2022 must-reads” Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century by Christina Riggs Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century by Christina Riggs (PublicAffairs, Feb. 1) On Nov. 26, 1922, in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, British archaeologist Howard Carter pierced a small opening in a door…
“#Eight blockbuster movie sequels coming out in 2022” New movies are back, but they’re all old (Illustration by Dominic Bugatto) Big blockbuster productions have been endangered by the rise of streaming and the pandemic, so Hollywood isn’t taking chances on anything new. From Disney hits to period dramas, movie studios in 2022 will have sequels…