• On Broadway and beyond

  June 16, 2010 - 5 h 00

  Good old George Benson's version of the "On Broadway" tune plays in my head while Wife and I stroll along Broadway toward Times Square at the heart of New York City's theatre district. It was George's song that opened the classic '79 flick, "All...

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• Joan Rivers still wants to talk

  June 12, 2010 - 5 h 00

  She would seem to be the most brutally straightforward woman in America, but Joan Rivers emerges as a jumble of contradictions in the documentary "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work," beginning most immediately - and superficially - with her...

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• Spain always a favourite

  June 12, 2010 - 5 h 00

  Every bit as flamboyant as Gaudi's still unfinished Sagrada Familia or Dali's The Persistence of Memory, two other national symbols of surrealist style, they paint their canvas in broad, florid strokes. Theirs is the difference between sky and...

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• Hip frontman says family life influenced new solo disc

  June 7, 2010 - 5 h 00

  When asked how his family influences his music, Gord Downie is uncharacteristically grand in his response. "They inspire everything," says the father of four over coffee in Toronto's east end. "Everything I do, everything I eat, everything I...

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• Sarah Jessica Parker, cast talk camels, couture in 'Sex and the City 2'

  May 29, 2010 - 5 h 00

  Trekking through the sand dunes of the Sahara atop a camel wearing vintage Dior and ultrahigh stilettos was just another day on set for Sarah Jessica Parker in "Sex and the City 2." The latest instalment in the popular franchise, which opened in...

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• Walk, walk fashion baby

  May 28, 2010 - 5 h 00

  It was standing room only, and barely that, with bodies packed to the door at the "Running With Scissors" fashion show at Dusk on George Street Wednesday night in St. John's. The taped-off area of the floor for the show's runway claimed some of...

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• Artists look outdoors

  May 28, 2010 - 5 h 00

  These are two separate, concurrent exhibitions, as opposed to a duet of visual artists composed around a theme. And "Reading A Garden," Margaret Ryall's mixed media and encaustics, and "Outdoorsy," Jennifer Barrett's acrylic and permanent marker...

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• Adrift in the light

  May 21, 2010 - 5 h 00

  "What passes for spring," Tara Bryan's new exhibition at the Christina Parker Gallery in St. John's, could also be titled "What passes in spring." The focus of all the oil on linen paintings, which range in size, is a single subject: icebergs....

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• Instantly recognizable

  May 15, 2010 - 5 h 00

  The art of Conrad Furey is instantly recognizable: the Expressionistic curvature of the figures, the deliberately naÏve arrangements of colour and form, the iconography of outport labour on the sea or in domestic interiors. Furey, who was born in...

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• Teacher 'gilds lily' for exhibit

  May 14, 2010 - 5 h 00

  Krista van Nostrand brings two distinct passions to her artwork. One is her skill with watercolour and the other is her interest in the stories objects can tell. "I come from a long line of people who are packrats, who hold on to stuff," she...

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Other news

• May 1, 2010 Fresh Fish craft show ongoing in St. John's
• May 1, 2010 Like a bad dream that never - ever - ends
• April 24, 2010 Lopez radiant as always
• April 20, 2010 Pretty in pink ... and brown and blue
• April 9, 2010 Feeling satisfied
• April 9, 2010 Art Garfunkel concert rescheduled for July 11
• April 7, 2010 Michaelle Jean's Haitian fans want term extended, appeal to PM
• April 5, 2010 Building on the foundations of provincial hip hop
• April 3, 2010 Puppy mill probe
• April 1, 2010 Leyton Gallery's guests on display
• March 30, 2010 Shifting fortunes
• March 10, 2010 Defining Spaces
• March 10, 2010 RNC seeking public's help in locating missing girls
• March 9, 2010 Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean tells Haitians they 'are not alone'
• March 9, 2010 RNC seeking missing 14-year-old girl