Ragtime has been playing to record crowds at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the -Lake since it opened in April earlier this year. Critical response has been generous but I know of at least two holdouts.
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Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Love me, love what I love? Not always.
Posted on 14:10 by rajrani
Ragtime has been playing to record crowds at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the -Lake since it opened in April earlier this year. Critical response has been generous but I know of at least two holdouts.
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Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Waiting for the parody. Brad does Chanel.
Posted on 13:23 by rajrani
My first perfume was Love's Baby Soft. It didn't last long on my adolescent vanity.
For around the time I discovered mascara, I took my first heavenly whiff of Chanel #5 perfume. I was immediately smitten. Wearing it was better than the sexy black dresses deemed too adult for my teen image.
These days I have graduated to other equally potent Chanel scents but my daughter has inherited my beloved #5. But will the classic scent endure this abysmal new ad featuring Brad Pitt?
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Friday, 12 October 2012
Girl power lesson #1: book the funny lady
Posted on 08:56 by rajrani
We heard lots of chatter about "girl power" this week thanks to the efforts of Plan Canada and their campaign to get girls to recognise, and be recognised for their own power to change communities.
It is a mission shared by writer and comedian Amy Poehler, former Saturday Night Live cast member and now star of Parks and Recreation. Poehler has launched a new Web series, Smart Girls at the Party, showcasing"girls who are changing the world by being themselves".
Read more »Thursday, 11 October 2012
Missing the point
Posted on 13:40 by rajrani
Today is the first International Day of the Girl, declared by the United Nations as a movement to speak out against gender bias and advocate for girls rights everywhere.
In our corner of the world, advocacy has gone a long way for us girls (in our house, we outnumber 3 to 1). Women are taking over, building a sparkling new matriarchy that spells The End Of Men. That's the title, and thesis, from author Hanna Rosin, whose bestseller is on my book club's reading list to digest later this year.
Her thesis is part myth, however fanciful the notion.
This morning, as I sat at an awards assembly at my kids all girls high school, I listened to the short address that saluted this new declaration and waited for the news blast that surely would have startled them awake from their morning slumps:
Read more »This morning, as I sat at an awards assembly at my kids all girls high school, I listened to the short address that saluted this new declaration and waited for the news blast that surely would have startled them awake from their morning slumps:
Thursday, 4 October 2012
Thanksgiving pulse
Posted on 11:18 by rajrani
When I was a kid, sharing Thanksgiving meant a squished seat between relatives and a truck sized turkey. Around the table we went, as requested, sharing something we were thankful for and nothing was off limits. Your answer, for example, might be the four helpings of mashed potatoes I am about to eat. Not soon enough, late as I am to most things if you ask my friends, I figured out that it was those excess of relatives and very existence of a bird at the table that might give me pause. But I digress.
Today, as the annual gobble season looms, family rituals stick. Here's what I'll say this year:
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Wednesday, 26 September 2012
J. K Rowling's first book since the Harry Potter series comes out today and it is most certainly NOT for children.
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Quick, tell me what comes to mind when you think Alec Baldwin.
An A list talent who has made a splash here and there for some less than savoury elements of his private life?
The titan of a clan of thespian brothers?
What about political sage?
Baldwin has a keen interest in the political world. It is an affinity shared by many peers in his profession who, like politicians, rely on name recognition to keep them in the pubic imagination. The list of actor turned politicians is long, familiar ( Reagan, Schwarzenegger) and mostly unremarkable but for the latest buzz putting Matt Damon in a future bid for the White House.
Baldwin provides an alternative stance, that of the wishful liberal pundit, who opines in a recent column about a lost America.
Whatever you think of the guy, he's not flippant.
Judge for yourself.
Alec Baldwin: Can America Be Great Again?
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