Once every month or so, on a Saturday morning, my daughter Jessie and I get up early and head off to Commercial Drive for coffee, orange juice and a shared Spanish Omelette with Portuguese sausage at The Havana Restaurant. The Drive, as it’s known, is Vancouver’s funkiest street; a vibrant, truly multicultural neighbourhood filled with… Read more »
The Planet of Junior Brown (1997) Director: Clement Virgo Based on the book: Junior’s Groove by Virginia Hamilton Starring: Martin Villafana, Rainbow Sun Francks, Sarah Polley, Lynn Whitfield, Margot Kidder, Clark Johnson Number 9 in Bridey’s Top Fifty BUD: Hard to believe this is a Canadian movie. BRIDEY: This is not a Canadian movie. BUD:… Read more »
Happiness: Is it a false hope or is it really attainable? Happiness. We all want it, and when someone’s got it, they flaunt it and everyone else has the secret hope that money can buy it. What brings happiness? People ask the Dalai Lama since he seems to have it together about what constitutes happiness… Read more »
Okay, I am officially sick and tired of all those belly-aching whiners out there who go on and on about how shallow and trivial our society is becoming. I hear it all the time: burned-out hippies and irritating tree huggers prattling on about how bad globalization is, how our lives are being taken over by… Read more »
One of my favourite television dramas is Nip/Tuck, an incredible show I was fortunate enough to discover right from the first episode. I’m eagerly awaiting season three right now, but recently my daughter had an unusual incident that was straight out of a Nip/Tuck episode. In the opening scene of that particular episode, Dr. Troy’s… Read more »
Earlier this March, the Liberal Party of Canada held their biennial convention in Ottawa. Party members and commissions from all over the country attended and took the opportunity to make their voices heard. Aside from giving party members an opportunity to socialize, the convention gave the Liberal Party the chance to re-evaluate its official policies… Read more »
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Trans/national Film and Literature: January 27-29 2005 Cultural Production and the Claims of History Tallahassee, Florida USA – FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY 555 West Pensacola Street, Tallahassee, FL 32306 – filmlit@englishmail.fsu.edu – http://english3.fsu.edu/~filmlit2005 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “Making Films with an Accent: Transnational, Transitional, and Translational Strategies” Hamid Naficy, Department Chair, and Nina J. Cullinan Professor of Art… Read more »
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ROMANCE SLAM JAM 2005 March 10 – 13 2005 Dallas, Texas USA Contact: Cindi Louis – 972.623.2537; Emma Rodgers – 800.272.5027 – P.O. box 530326, Grand Prarie, TX, 75053 romanceslamjam2005@yahoo.com – http://www.romanceslamjam.com/ The four-day conference unites readers and writers of Black romance for an exciting fun-filled extended weekend of literary activities, entertainment, and awards presentations…. Read more »