I don’t know about you, but I’m so excited about the XXIII Winter Olympic Games, opening in Pyeongchang, Korea on Friday, February 9th! Winter Olympics are my favourite thing – and I start training early. I’ve been working out daily, because I know that for the next two weeks, my physical activity will be limited […]
In 1843, Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol: In Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, the story of the miserly Ebeneezer Scrooge, and the visitation by the three ghosts of Christmas, forever changing how we approach the Christmas season. Mr. Fezziwig’s Ball, frontispiece of “A Christmas Carol”, 1843 At this point, Dickens […]
Nothing goes together like a hot summer day in cottage country, a frosty cold beer, and a great story. And so it was that earlier this summer, I paused to read the label on my Sawdust City “Little Norway” lager, and began a quest into the history of the town I have always known as […]
Toronto is getting ready for a huge party to celebrate Canada’s sesquicentennial. There will be music, dancing, fireworks displays, picnics and (Oh my gosh!) – Barenaked Ladies! Ironically, 26 years after the band was banned from performing at City Hall, the Barenaked Ladies have been asked to be one of the headliners at the biggest […]
In libraries, we often speak about the book in all its forms – from trade paperback, to unique artists books, to interactive word in the online environment. From now until April 22nd, you will be able to experience books as art in the Browsery at the Toronto Reference Library. Begun as an initiative of Word […]