Bonjour, là, bonjour – Theatre review
Warning – the following contains spoilers. I saw a dress rehearsal of UNB Theatre’s upcoming production “Bonjour, là, bonjour” last week at Memorial Hall. The set was still in construction and the stage lights weren’t turned on – it was still quite a few days until the show opened. But I still left the theatre [...]
Second-year St. Thomas University student Cindy Kimove is jumping her way back into the world of highland dance competitions after an injury last year forced her out of the Canadian Championship finals. “I danced the first day of the competition and I hurt myself,” she said. “The physio people on site told me not to [...]
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Keeping warm in winter can always be difficult, but for the second year in a row, the Shivering Songs music festival is looking forward to bringing “warm music to a cold Fredericton winter,” as described on their Facebook page. Shivering Songs is curated by Fredericton band The Olympic Symphonium, who released their third album – [...]
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Everyone has a crazy aunt or uncle. But in Serge’s case – the main character of Michel Tremblay’s “Bonjour, là, Bonjour” – he’s dealing with much more than just one loony family member. The University of New Brunswick’s advanced drama production class is putting on Tremblay’s 1974 drama this week at Memorial Hall. Set in [...]
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Fredericton’s Beaverbrook Art Gallery is once again providing the opportunity to drink with Dalí in 2012. New Brunswick’s provincial art gallery is putting on eight open-house events this year called Drinks with Dalí. The events celebrate the gallery’s prized piece Santiago El Grande – a painting by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí – while exposing new [...]
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Mandarin Palace, 502 Forest Hill Rd. So I thought I would kick off the newest STU Dines with a little bit of controversy. I have come to hear that some of the norovirus issues from the journalism conference in British Colombia had to do with food. Mandarin Palace has also had their fair share of [...]
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VANCOUVER (CUP) — In the call for submissions to his latest project back in October, award-winning writer, director and activist Matt Pizzolo wrote, “I think Occupy Wall Street needs art more than it needs a list of demands… I think artists and writers of comic books have a unique ability to evoke broad ideas and [...]
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Donna Mulholland’s lifelong mantra is: “Do what you love.” So when she left her job with the provincial government three years ago by choice – something she called “an abrupt leap” – she set out to do just that. “What I love is to create and to inspire others to be, express and celebrate themselves [...]
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Usually, when you think of someone telling a World War I story, you think of intrepid foreign correspondents or the voice of a valiant veteran. But in, “Oh What a Lovely War,” the tragedies of war are told by clowns. Theatre St. Thomas will be performing Joan Littlewood’s play at the Black Box Theatre this [...]
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(Photo courtesy of Shayne Kaye via Flickr Creative Commons) KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CUP) — I’ve been able to bottle it up until now. It has been boiling in the background, but I put a lid on it and let it be. But now — now you’ve done it. You have, once again, ended up (almost) at [...]
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The best and worst is a very irresponsible subject for a movie column when, according to some, I haven’t seen the best movies of 2011. My criminology prof accosted me in the middle of an exam to demand that I see Hugo—I haven’t. The Help was apparently a collective orgasm for the world but it’s [...]
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Rachel Watters is animated as she remembers spending time in hospital rooms as a child. Even though she was there for a medical condition, she says she thrived in the spotlight. “My mother would tell me that I would be dancing around the room, playing with their instruments, telling knock-knock jokes.” The 30-year-old Fredericton resident [...]
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