That’s right, folks! Though I will remain cautiously optimistic at least until the actors have been tied to a contract, TV Guide’s David Ausiello seems to think a Gilmore Girls movie to conclude the show, Amy Sherman-Palladino-style, is a viable possibility: “In the next year or two, she hopes to make — wait for it [...]

Though it’s a bit backwards to have found out about media campaigns through secondary means, I suppose for public awareness purposes, the medium itself doesn’t matter. These are two PSAs worth checking out: Toronto-based marketing firm BBDO produced this ad, among others, for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. It’s unsettling and uncomfortable, just as [...]

I attended a workshop last weekend alongside one of my favorite Edmonton playwrights, Marty Chan. Though not as prolific as Lemoine or Belke, I credit Chan’s Bone House as the play that started it all for me – after watching it that cool, fall night many years ago, I began my yearly pilgrimage to the [...]

Two Asian restaurants have recently opened up in the city – Sweet Mango (9120 82 Avenue) and Moon Garden (10117 Jasper Avenue). They haven’t received as much press as their also-green counterparts Bacon and Skinny Legs and Cowgirls, but hopefully once the hype of those two bistros die down, more attention can be paid to [...]

As I have mentioned previously, I am now leaning towards recipes that can be made with what I have available in my fridge and pantry on a day-to-day basis, and after catching a segment on America’s Test Kitchen this morning, I decided to duplicate their Everyday Lighter Macaroni and Cheese recipe for dinner tonight. Annie [...]

My Europe-bound girlfriends came over for a pre-trip planning session this afternoon. In addition to the Internet, they brought over various guidebooks, they have been collecting over the last few weeks. Flipping through one of them, Lonely Planet’s Best of London, I came across this text in a section titled “Women Travellers”: “Aside from the [...]

Looking to unwind at the end of a work week, I asked May, my Mexican cuisine connoisseur friend, to choose a restaurant. She had heard good things about Acajutla, 11302-107 Avenue (which coincidently, won second place in Vue Weekly‘s Golden Fork for Mexican/Latin American), so there we went. As indicated on the menu, acajutla translates [...]

Trying to make the most of leftover dried pasta and asiago cheese left over from our mac & cheese and focaccia pizza creations, respectively, I found a fairly simple recipe in Rachel Ray’s Pizzagna. Sounding appealing enough, it combined elements of pizza and lasagna in an easy assemble-and-bake style dish. Though we omitted the onions [...]

With The Crucible and Death of a Salesman as evidence, I thought Arthur Miller’s last play, After the Fall, would have had similar oomph. Boy, was I wrong. From the Studio Theatre website: “Miller’s After the Fall (1964) is a strongly autobiographical work, which deals with the questions of guilt and innocence, examining failed relationships, [...]

Mack, Kimmi, Dickson and I grabbed a quick bite to eat at Earls (Tin Palace, 11830 Jasper Avenue) this evening. I really don’t have that much to say about this chain restaurant, as it is pretty well known that I would prefer not to eat at Earls if given the choice. My personal bias aside, [...]