On the cusp of our summer issue
June 2024
Join us on The Signal next Friday (June 14, noon in Newfoundland, 12:30 in Labrador) where we’ll be discussing the upcoming theme.
Image: Sortie de l’opera en l’an 2000, by Albert Robida (c 1902)
Rick Mercer: Part 2: In show business, you should make it look easy
And sometimes when you’re starting something like setting up that petition to get Stockwell Day to change his name, you’re opening a big door and you’re not really sure what’s…
Costume Banks and Conjured Worlds
BY Eva Crocker
As we weave through the racks she tells me the history of specific pieces, like a donated Sherlock Holmes’ style cape and deerstalker hat that was worn during the Boer War. Each costume is a talisman for transformation and picking the right one can help summon a character, conjure a world.
Art in the Time of Physical Distance: Christopher Dunn
What book(s) and author(s) are you reading right now and why? Right now I’m reading The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King….