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News salesmen fight their flab, smitten with trash talk

News salesmen fight their flab, smitten with trash talk

Ad director and sales rep compete for fitness supremacy
Say what you see! Gateway introduces program for blind

Say what you see! Gateway introduces program for blind

Work cut out describers during Gateway Theatre's farcical play
Lego convention built on more than plastic bricks

Lego convention built on more than plastic bricks

Lego, apparently, is not just child's play
Gateway Theatre review: French farce a fun tour de force

Gateway Theatre review: French farce a fun tour de force

Don’t Dress for Dinner plot unravels with panache
Book Club: Author’s use of common words explains a lot

Book Club: Author’s use of common words explains a lot

Sometimes, we find things in the world that are hard to understand, especially things that are very hard to build or that are made of lots of little parts. This book by Randall Munroe called Thing Explainer helps make these hard things easier to get.
Book Club: DeWitt's latest is a good kind of strange

Book Club: DeWitt's latest is a good kind of strange

Patrick deWitt’s Undermajordomo Minor is a strange book. But wait, don’t put it away — it’s the good kind of strange, the type that makes you marvel at deWitt’s imagination while attempting to make sense of the world into which he’s dropped you.
One-woman play an hour of power

One-woman play an hour of power

Richmond's Gateway Theatre's latest offering is laced with loneliness and regret, but packs a punch
Book Club: Recipes hit the spot

Book Club: Recipes hit the spot

When I have the time, I love to cook and although I already have hundreds of cookbooks on my shelf at home (no, seriously!), I continue to be attracted to new cookbooks and new recipes to try.
Opera performed in an intimate space

Opera performed in an intimate space

Opera, when performed in an intimate venue, is a two-way street for both performers and their audience to enjoy in ways that are unique and fulfilling.
Book Club: Colonial life in Africa through the eyes of a child

Book Club: Colonial life in Africa through the eyes of a child

Written by a British expatriate, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight is a memoir of growing up in Africa.