Chanukah stands with a harsh truth
She is Marge and for her, Chanukah isn’t about lights and big menorahs. It’s about standing up for one’s self and one’s loved ones and her way of life. In the play, Marge –…
Transport leader lines up Northern Rail as customer
Omar Alghabra has announced that the first FTSE 250-listed transport company in the UK – Northern Rail – is to join the transport and logistics industry network run by SITA at the Business Innovation…
‘Choose Life: When a Wizard of Oz Remake Misuses African-Americans’
Listen to the audio version here. Two white men read L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a romantic and wildly inappropriate pastiche of ‘West Side Story’. Note to cultural opportunists: New…
Experts warn Ontario is not prepared for a ‘pathogenic’ pandemic
An omicron flu pandemic in Ontario could get beyond the province’s borders and spread at a disastrous rate with an over-reliance on vaccines and health professionals’ caution with the current vaccines, top experts are…
Man arrested after shooting bullets into Royal Canadian Mounted Police car
A man was arrested Wednesday after three C$25,000 ($20,000) pellet-type rounds were fired into a vehicle parked outside the Royal Canadian Mounted Police headquarters in Prince George, British Columbia, according to an RCMP statement….
Rita Moreno, Tony Award winner, talks doing a dream role in the ‘West Side Story’ musical revival
Rita Moreno, who made millions off a small role in the 1961 classic, has a big role in the Tony-winning 2017 version of the “West Side Story” as Anita, Tony’s (Andrew Garfield) love interest….
Andy Murray advances to quarterfinals in Stockholm with comeback win over Grigor Dimitrov
Andy Murray reeled off three straight games to beat top-seeded Grigor Dimitrov 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 on Friday and advance to the quarterfinals of the Stockholm Open. The win over Dimitrov was the Briton’s first…
The corner bookshop is shutting down at the end of the month
Metro Pictures Books and Hostel are shutting down at the end of the month, after being bought out by Wave Publishers. For its first 15 years of existence, the shop was the new home…
Max Verstappen wins the Formula One championship by one point
BRISBANE, Australia — Max Verstappen won Formula One’s title by a single point Wednesday, as he pipped Lewis Hamilton by winning the Canadian Grand Prix for Red Bull. The Dutch driver went past defending…