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A Christmas Carol Returns to the Rialto
When Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol back in 1843 did he have any idea that would become as much a part of Christmas celebrations around the world as the legend of Santa Claus? Not likely. The...
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An Old Chestnut
An excerpt from Mankind Is Our Business, by Ingrid Van Mater . . . In Dickens’ (A Christmas Carol) treatment of the trials, failures, and triumphs that occur in daily living, he reveals that the most...
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The Season’s Greetings: More Than Words
“It’s the time of the season when love runs high” – The Zombies I was thinking today, on Christmas Eve, as I was driving to my sister Patty and her partner’s house, about what we mean when we wish each...
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Happy Dickens Day: celebrating the Montreal-Boz connection
Looking for a way to mark the February 7th bicentennial of the birth of the greatest novelist who ever lived? (OK, if you insist, arguably the greatest. He’s definitely right up there.) You could do a...
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Montreal Pots and Pans Movement: Jacob Marley Walks Again
I’ve just done a new post with the above title for my other blog. Click here if you are interested in reading it: Montreal Pots and Pans Movement: Jacob Marley Walks Again Jillian …
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A Christmas Message
I have a couple of Christmas Eve traditions: one is to watch a classic old black-and-white version of A Christmas Carol; and the other is to read an article by Ingrid Van Mater about Charles Dickens’s...
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The meaning of Christmas
What does Christmas mean to you? Anything special, or just another day? As I mentioned in my post about the Winter Solstice, I see the Christmas holidays as a time to celebrate the return of the sun to...
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Ex-Hab Laraque on motley team for Geordie's Christmas Carol
This is a first for Geordie Productions assistant director Jessica Abdallah: she has to stand on a chair and stretch to adjust the elaborate and massive costume of the Ghost of Christmas Present....
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West Island concerts inspire holiday spirit
There is music in the air and it’s designed to inspire the holiday spirit. Here’s a peak: Union Church in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue is hosting the multi-disciplinary event A Gift of Light — New Reflections...
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