So who hasn’t had their pancakes today? Although I think my mother used to give us pancakes for breakfast every year on this day, I don’t think she ever put coins inside the pancakes for us to find.
I didn’t know anything about the history of Pancake Day until I looked it up on Wikipedia five minutes ago.
Donny & Marie bring Vegas show to Toronto
…the company will host the only Canadian stop in a four-city tour of Broadway’s hit Green Day musical American Idiot. The rock musical, based on the Grammy-winning band’s music, will be staged in Toronto Dec. 28, 2011, to Jan. 15, 2012.
Well it’s about bloody time.
Jenny and I saw the CGI animal western, Rango, in a theatre on Friday, and like everyone else in the audience, we didn’t laugh. (And I don’t think most of the kids there got into it.) The quality of the animation gives Pixar a run for its money. But the difference is in the storyline. Most Pixar movies are engaging from the start. “Rango” never rises above being clever and amusing.
I just read a sparkling new column by Jenny Higgins in the recently resurrected-one-more-time Newfoundland newspaper, The Independent. The newspaper is an online publication now: TheIndependent.ca. The banner image doesn’t show up for anyone using an ad-blocker (a polite way of hinting that they really need those advertising dollars?), but otherwise the website seems well designed and easy to read.
The Independent was always a fresh and intelligent alternative to other news publications in Newfoundland. Judging from what I’ve read online so far, it still is. Jenny’s bi-weekly column, Past Tense, focuses on interesting but often overlooked aspects of Newfoundland history, and is a welcomed addition to their already impressive line-up of contributors. I plan to keep reading.
P.S.: This has not been a paid-for advertisement. It’s just I think quite highly of anything Jenny does.
UPDATE (August 25/11): Well, it looked promising in the beginning, but the new Independent ain’t so great anymore. I haven’t read it for months. It’s not even on my radar. I can’t go into details without getting into trouble. I’ll just say TheIndependent.ca has little in common with the former print version.
