This evening, at 7PM, there's a reading of a theatrical adaptation of
Lisa Moore 's short story, Grace. It's at Eastern Edge, with a fabulous cast including Neil Butler, Sue Kent and Ruth Lawrence, and admission is FREE yes FREE.

(Image: grace.com.)

Lois Brown Fundraiser

Friends of the invaluable and award-winning Lois Brown are organizing a fundraiser for the multi-disciplinary artist, who was injured in a car accident in Vancouver, but is recovering with her usual spirit and elan. And by "Friends of" we mean just about everyone she's worked with/inspired/helped out/made laugh - pretty much everyone she's ever met, basically.
Here is but one example of her
influence - recognize that guy?
Collections are being taken at NIFCO, the Hall, and the Travel Bug.

(Image: that's Lois, back on, in blue. This is from a series of short videos she's posted at 48th Parallel. Check 'em out, they're great fun.)

The Boy On The Raft

There was a reading at the Rose and Thistle on Water Street a couple of years ago. Joel Hynes and Lois Brown had teamed up to present some new work. Lois's writing culminated in this line: "Would the boy on the raft please come to shore?" Repeated. Via megaphone. By then-Premier A. Brian Peckford. It was classic Brown, an exuberant and preposterous catharsis, delivered dead straight.
We hear this morning that Lois has had an accident in Vancouver, where she is attending Magnetic North, directing Andy Jones in An Evening With Uncle Val. Our fingers are crossed; we hope, hope, hope for good news.

(Image: etc.usf.edu/clipart.)

Icebergs - The New Black

With icebergs now the IT ingredient in all manner of cosmetics and cosmopolitans, here's a glimpse of the real thing.

(Photo: Gerald Riggs.)

Out & About

We hope to spend a fair bit of the summer traveling around Newfoundland, road tripping to the theatrical hubbub of
Trinity, the literary elan of
Eastport, and maybe even the west coast hot spots of
Rocky Harbour and
Cow Head. We like the face-to-face engagement of on-site subscription booths, and we really like meeting our readers. Too bad gas has increased to a bazillion dollars a litre, but perhaps we can pare back some other travel expenses.
Anyone got a spare room?
We're really quiet and neat.
Hardly eat a bite.
Never know we were there.
Seriously.

(Image: myleisuretravel.)

Weather

That is pretty much what the world looked like outside our office windows yesterday. Well, OK, we weren't really on the space shuttle, but things did look slightly otherworldly for a time. Now, extreme weather can be all kinds of fun to watch, but it can be dangerous. FYI,
here's some information on thunderstorms.

(Image: weatherquestions.)

Pascin

There is a new exhibition opening this week at the Leyton Gallery.
The work is by James Rosen, who is pretty interesting, and it is largely inspired by the artist
Jules Pascin, who was really darn interesting. Pascin embodied that whole between-the-wars period of Montparnasse verve - throwing parties that ended up as scenes in famous novels, studying with Toulouse-Lautrec, drinking with Hemingway, taking ten taxi loads of people out to dinner. Amidst such goings-on he also worked like the devil and produced hundreds of drawings and paintings. Came to a sad end, unfortunately. Ah, la vie, la vie boheme...

(Image: imagecache.)