It seems wrong to fulminate for two posts without posting something positive about something. We had a great $10 wine ($9.95 with deposit) with our pizza two Sundays ago, Domaine de l’Ameillaud, VdP de Vaucluse at 13.5%. This is a southern France Vin de Pays, predominantly Grenache-based apparently. It does a convincing imitation of acontinue reading
Luisa Miller
While I’m at it, by comparison Luisa Miller isn’t half bad. The production suffers from indifferent (and occasionally bizarre) sets and costumes, but whatever, all these things cost big money and we don’t seem to have that kind of money around here. (By far the best sets this year were Lady MacBeth, and those werecontinue reading
Travestiata
We went to the COC Traviata this evening with a sense of foreboding, since Kenneth Winters wrote a thoroughly negative review in the Globe a few days ago. Unfortunately I have to agree with him. There’s really nothing whatsoever wrong with the music–the singers are all quite good, the orchestra plays very well etc.–but thecontinue reading
Lower Don plan design winner
… announced tonight. Details here. Who knows what it will look like if and when it’s actually built. Lots to discuss. The designer (see p6 of the .pdf) seems to want to run an LRT down Queen’s Quay, then Commissioners, as far as I can tell. There is going to have to be a Queen’scontinue reading
The Window Lawyer is officially not an urban legend
From the Mope&Wail’s business pages, discussing the closure of Goodman and Carr LLP: Previously, the biggest law firm to shut down was Toronto-based Holden Day Wilson LLP in 1996. Holden Day at its peak had 90 lawyers after a merger in 1990, but the firm was devastated in 1993 by a fatal accident involving popularcontinue reading
Asparagus!
Second day of fresh Ontario asparagus at our greengrocer! Feasting tonight –
Even “new-ish” might be a stretch
At last, a petition to save the meaning of the word “new” from being redefined by Canada’s no-longer-new government. Though I’m not optimistic about its chances of success, given that Stockwell never did get around to changing his name to Doris.
Caption competition!
If you can work in the word “quailtard,” bonus points.
Enough already
In spite of a warning from a Facebook status message yesterday I watched Grey’s Anatomy last night, a special two-hour episode to set up a spin-off featuring Dr. Addison Montgomery moving to LA to work in a quirky medical clinic (as if there is there any other kind). I’m not sure why my Facebook friendcontinue reading
Never meant to be drunk
An ad in the Star’s business section, November 30, 1971. (Click on image.)