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Mary Pratt – Everyday Objects, Superb Art, Superb Colourist
Mary Pratt – bold, flamboyant, using photographic projections to paint her masterful still life’s. Her art focussed on everyday household items – apples, jars of jelly, paper bags, aluminum foil. Her colours jump off the canvass – dramatic – not your usual, usual, colours. In the magazine, Canadian Art, Mary said: ““Titanium White, Cadmium Pale…
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Montreal Is Unique In North America – European Ambience, Charm, Big City Bustle
Montreal is special, Montreal is unique. Visiting Montreal is visiting Europe. Visiting Montreal is visiting a major modern city. Montreal – the tale of two cities. The charm, ambience, of Europe with the hustle, bustle, of the big city. An amazing combination. It’s yours to love. So let’s explore Montreal. A must see in old…
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Peter Tanner – A Twin – His Life Endless Discoveries All Over The World
Meet Peter and George Tanner. Both are brothers. Both are twins. Their lives extraordinary. Their stories, their journey’s, their experiences, so amazing they need to be told separately, not as one. First up – Peter. Next week – George. For Peter life means a lot of things – luck, true grit, sheer determination, being in…
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The Easiest Bread Ever – You Can Bake – It’s A Snap
ATTENTION ALL BREAD LOVERS- THIS IS EASIEST BREAD YOU CAN MAKE AND IT’S DELICIOUS Tasting NotesThis is crusty on the outside, light and chewy on the inside.Serve with some great unsalted butter and you will swoon. What You Need3 cups of flour3/4 of a tablespoon of salt1 tablespoon of yeast1 3/4 cup of water MethodPlace…
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Jordan Armstrong – Reporter Anchor – Bigger Horizons Loom
Meet Jordan Armstrong. For him watching television news started early, leaving lasting impressions. He was a tyke – four years old. Watching the news with his Nana happened often, Jordan pointing often to the television saying – I wanna be. Eight years later – age 12 – he came closer. That’s when he met Kevin…
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Vancouver – Wine Country At Your Fingertips
Travelling, discovering, exploring, finding new places, and adventurers, does not always mean visiting foreign shores. Often your own backyard is a good bet. So let’s do that. Lets the explore the wine country and wineries outside Vancouver – nestled among bucolic, tranquil, landscapes, sheep grazing away, horses out to pasture, amidst white picket fences. There…
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Matt Stutzman – Rare, Unique, Inspiring
There are some people that can do anything. Anything they make up their minds to do. They are special. But then there are those who are super special and super rare. Matt Stutzman is in that category. He was born with serious, major, disabilities. Despite that he became a world super champ, someone to look…
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Jean- Michel Basquiat – Graffiti Artist To Art Icon
Jean-Michel Basquiat – one of the seminal artists of the 21st. Century In his late teens he was hustling postcards on the subways of New York and on the streets in SoHo. Either he, or his schoolmate Al Diaz, under the name, SAMO – Same Old Shit, had produced them. The reason? His father had…
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Sally Reardon – Skilled Typist, Inveterate World Traveller, Great Journalist, Author
Meet Sally Reardon. Sally had a magic number – 70, used various typewriters, and had some chutzpah, not too much, just a bit, but enough to matter. All three helped launch a distinguished journalism career – sometimes travelling to foreign shores, meeting seminal personalities, her sardonic, wry, droll, pointed, but subtle sense of humour, helping…
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This Chicken BBQ You Will Want To Eat Again And Again
COMFORT FOOD AT IT’S BEST- BBQ CHICKEN WITH PAN-FRIED POTATOESA scrumptious dinner for two – easy, no muss, no fuss, that will delight your taste buds. Tasting NotesWho doesn’t like that fantastic BBQ taste, sweet, spicy and coupled with pan-fried potatoes, rich, bathed in garlic and onions and the earthy pepper taste.And then that simple…