Gabi Epstein is a Torontonian singer and actress who’s been singing professionally since the age of six. A vocal major at the Claude Watson School of the Performing Arts, she later completed her Bachelor of Music at McGill in just two years. Many professional stage roles followed, including parts in Bye Bye Birdie and Napoleon… Read more »
Another brand new learning opportunity is being served up on the smorgasbord of AU courses: COMP 369, Practical Game Programming. If You’re a computer programmer, have interest in computer science, or just want to know a little more about how your favourite computer games work, You’re in luck! This three-credit course opened in January 2011… Read more »
Stacey Kent is a multilingual jazz chanteuse with a large and zealous worldwide following. Her understated phrasing and deeply sensitive renderings of standards and original tunes have won her many accolades and enthusiastic reviews. Stacey began her musical career after completing a master’s degree in comparative literature. In 2010, after six bestselling albums, she released… Read more »
Stacey Kent is a jazz chanteuse with a large and zealous worldwide cult following. Her understated phrasing and deeply sensitive renderings of standards and original tunes in several languages have won her many accolades and enthusiastic reviews. Stacey began her musical career after completing a Master’s degree in comparative literature. In 2010, after six best-selling… Read more »
?Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.? Albert Camus, The Rebel (Read Part I of this series here.) A communiqué sent out by group Action pour le Changement en Algerie urged a peaceful and unified, but fearlessly uncompromising, demonstration for Saturday, Feb 12. But efforts… Read more »
Stacey Kent is an American jazz chanteuse with a large and zealous worldwide cult following. Her meticulous, understated phrasings and deeply sensitive renderings of standards and original tunes have won her many accolades and enthusiastic reviews. She sings in both English and French. Stacey began her musical career after completing a Masters degree in comparative… Read more »
In early February those intriguing articles start appearing, claiming aphrodisiac properties for certain foods. Yet we eat many of these foods on a regular basis, without any?well, noticeable effects. Is there any fact behind these claims, or is the truth interwoven with fiction? Almonds Almonds are considered to be an ancient symbol of fertility. In… Read more »
?Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.? Norman O. Brown In 1980, Algerian scholar Mouloud Mammeri was preparing to present his book at a conference on Berber poetry in Tizi Ouzou. The book was a collection of poems he’d gathered, titled Poèmes kabyles… Read more »
It’s the middle of winter. And if you live in a cold, windy location (and isn’t all of Canada cold and windy at this time of year?), you may be feeling those winter blues settling in. For many of us, this means feeling impatient with the cold weather and dreaming longingly of Caribbean beaches. But… Read more »
(Read Part I and Part II of this article.) ?. . . For all that is done and said. We know their dream; enough To know they dreamed and are dead; And what if excess of love Bewildered them till they died? . . . Now and in time to be, Wherever green is worn,… Read more »