inCommunicado - eric eggertson

We got back to the house at 1:30 this morning from our road trip to Meacham to see James O’Shea’s The Red Truck.
For a play about rural Saskatchewan, the setting is just right. Dancing Sky Theatre operates out of a converted community hall in the village of Meacham, east of Saskatoon. There is room for […]

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Kelley Jo Burke’s Charming and Rose: True Love is playing Monday and Tuesday night (April 30, May 1) at the University of Regina’s ShuBox Theatre.
Since I’m married to the playwright, I’ll avoid bias and just say this is a superb play that tackles the myth of the perfect woman as defined by controlling men.
Rose is […]

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I met Krista Baliko at a podcasters’ meetup last year, (even though neither of us is a podcaster), so I like to watch her progress working at the CBC Mother Corp.
Good to see she’s got a blog this week, as she posts about the goings-on in Saskatoon around the JUNO awards. The awards show time […]

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The arts is supposed to be one of those areas where plucky artistic types toil away in poverty and obscurity for years until their brilliance is recognized.
That’s still true for a lot of actors and other artists, but the business of running the culture industry is complex.  Theatres and publishing houses, galleries and film companies […]

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Leah McLaren’s front-page Globe and Mail interview with actress turned director Sarah Polley goes pretty well until you get to the background description that says "she took the title role in Kevin Sullivan’s hit show, Road to Avonlea."
I have only one question:  Did she play the road, or Avonlea?
Definition: title role
(Image from Sullivan Entertainment website)
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HarperCollins Canada is adding podcasts of interviews with authors to its bag of tricks for generating interest in new books coming out this summer.
The interviews, conducted by podcaster Cathi Bond, will feature a HarperCollins author talking about their recently published book.
But HarperCollins Canada’s Steve Osgoode (in a response to my e-mail) says the podcasts will […]

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Dave Traynor has it right.  He points to Randy Bachman’s Saturday night show on CBC Radio One as "arguably the best music show in the land."
Bachman hosts Randy’s Vinyl Tap, which uses his personal perspective as the lens through which he views a musical theme, event or time period.  If you haven’t tuned in, […]

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The business model being pursued by the big music companies is so out of touch with what consumers want, it scares me. What if they prevail, and any music rights owned by a big company becomes so tied up in digital rights that the customers can no longer listen to the music they have bought?
Cory […]

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As an English major in college and university, I chased after B.C.’s literati, looking for wisdom about the world, the art of writing, and how to be cool.
Now online literary journal Jacket Magazine has uncovered an interview I did with poet/novelist/personality George Bowering in 1979, for The Ubyssey newspaper and the Vancouver Poetry Center Newsletter […]

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I have always assumed that internationally renowned artists, actors, writers and songwriters are financially well off.  Lately, I’ve been seeing more and more examples of creators being frozen out of the fruits of their labour, usually by corrupt or inept business managers.
Publishing executive Connor Cochrane has taken on the cause of Peter S. Beagle, whose […]

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Columnists are paid to be controversial, so it should not have surprised me to read Globe and Mail columnist Russell Smith praising the announcer-free-all-CDs-all-the-time programming playing on CBC Radio Two during the current lockout of CBC and Radio Canada workers.
But as the spouse of someone who works hard as a producer at CBC when there […]

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