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Glee actor comes to LemonAid
The Burnaby-based Down Syndrome Foundation is hosting LemonAid, a fundraiser on May 23 at the River Rock Show Theatre in Richmond, and a well-known figure from the hit TV show Glee will be there.
Rock icons come alive in acrylic
Dave Benning is rocking the art world with his ultra-lifelike acrylic paintings.
Fado superstar Ana Moura performing at Capilano University as part of Global Roots series
- Ana Moura performs Sunday, March 3, 8 p.m. at the North Shore Credit Union Centre for the Performing Arts as part of the Global Roots series. Tickets are $35/$32 available at tickets.capilanou.ca
New releases: Stones stick to sources on seven-inch BBC EP; The Zolas superb on Ancient Mars
SOMETHING old, something new in rotation on the playlist:
Music, laughs and a math lesson
When it comes to mathematics, some students see the subject as more of a prerequisite than something fun and exciting. Be it the supposed difficulty of the subject matter itself, or having to learn the difference between terms like sine and cosine, math is often looked upon as something of a chore, nothing more.
Age-old mysteries
The internal odometer on this increasingly creaking and battered body rolled over the 50-year mark last weekend - I hope everybody enjoyed the Monday holiday the government proclaimed to mark the occasion; I thought it was a nice, appropriate gesture - and as much as I would like to deny it, too often I find myself thinking more like a curmudgeon than I did in my younger days.
Stones circa 1972: Jim Marshall captures a wild ride on tour
- The Rolling Stones 1972. By Jim Marshall Chronicle Books, 168 pages, $28.95.
Chicago's blues bus a tour de farce
IT may be uncool to take organized tours when you travel, but in a big, unfamiliar city they sure beat trying to follow the terse advice of a guidebook - not to mention fighting traffic.
Games no longer about knees or pyjamas
STRANGELY, in British slang, calling something "pants" means it is terrible, while "dog's bollocks" means it is excellent.
Rockers sing different tune about retirement
It speaks, perhaps, to gardening. To travel. To reading books, to mastering chess, to cruising to Alaska, to going to night school to learn a second language.
Open the door to your personality
"I see a red door and I want to paint it black," Mick Jagger once sang.
Doors can be the window to your personality
"I see a red door and I want to paint it black," Mick Jagger once sang.
Guitarist Ian Moore returns to gig May 11 at Blue Frog
Austin, Texas-based guitarist Ian Moore returns to the Semiahmoo Peninsula for a May 11 gig at Blue Frog studio/concert hall in White Rock, which follows a date for him last fall at the Rhumba Room bar in South Surrey.
Big boys share a passion for Stones
A quintet of professional musicians took their passion for the Rolling Stones to a new level recently, with the creation of a tribute band called Heart of Stone.
Band on the run: Liftoff live it up on Texas tour
LOCAL rockers Liftoff have no illusions about what it takes to break into the U.S. market.
Dawson unplugs for upcoming music series
IN a club just off Granville Street the band is dishing out the kind of gritty, nasty, rock 'n' roll that can mortify a mother at 40 paces.
