Saturday, May 2, 2026
Sir David Suchet was born on May 2, 1946. While he has had an extensive career in the theatre, movies and television, he will always be known for one role in particular: Hercule Poirot. Suchet… Read More
Friday, May 1, 2026
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavor after a worthy… Read More
Thursday, April 30, 2026
“I don’t know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.”— Gary… Read More
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
“My parents were less than thrilled when they got the news. I can understand that: a life in the arts is chancy in at least a hundred ways, ninety of them financial. My mother said,… Read More
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
“Space belongs to all of us. There is science in dance and art in science.”— Mae Jemison The first Black woman to go to space, Mae Jemison has sought out pursuits in the sciences —… Read More
Monday, April 27, 2026
“I’ve found I have started to use small-time mob-boss tactics in my house. I figure out things that they like, and then threaten to hurt those things.”— Jerry Seinfeld In November 2006, Jerry Seinfeld was… Read More
Sunday, April 26, 2026
“Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere. You can usually tell as they are coming into the park whether it is going to be a happy, responsive crowd… Read More
Saturday, April 25, 2026
I can tell my mom’s mood from 20 paces. I often see her in the corridor, leaning on her walker, and she turns as she hears me call her name. Her face might break your… Read More
Saturday, April 25, 2026
“Although it may be true to say that an American is a creature of four wheels, and to point out that American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s-license age than at voting… Read More
Friday, April 24, 2026
“I was given the illusion of power while the real deciders had private calls without me, and you can only be undermined so many times on an adaptation of your own life before you start… Read More
Thursday, April 23, 2026
“I had friends, for sure. Lots of them. But I still really enjoyed, mostly, being alone and going home and getting under the dining room table after school. And there was this long cloth over… Read More
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
It’s a clever “what if” conceit, a plot theory to upend one of the great narratives of modern fiction. What if Sherlock Holmes and James Moriarity, deathly rivals in the work of Arthur Conan Doyle… Read More
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
“Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle.”— Ian Maclaren This quote has a bit of history since the Scottish writer Ian Maclaren contributed it to the nonconformist religious publication British Weekly in… Read More
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Historica Canada posted something of note yesterday on Facebook: a new Heritage Minute is coming, and it’s about Gander and 9/11. In a starring role: Rick Mercer, as former Gander mayor Claude Elliott. It’s a… Read More
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
“The bad times I can handle. It’s the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going to drop?”— Erma Bombeck This feels like the credo of a pessimist, or maybe a… Read More