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Regis and Kelly wrap up PEI broadcasts

By the Branta Webcrawler • Jul 16th, 2010 • Category: Editor's Picks, From the Interweb, News Briefs, Travel

Regis and Kelly wrap up PEI broadcasts with thanks for Canadian hospitality. Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa wrapped up nearly a week of shows from Prince Edward Island with a beach bash and many thanks for all the Canadian hospitality. The hosts of “Live! with Regis and Kelly” began their final episode with a salute from two CF-18 fighter planes, which circled the cheering crowd.
The Globe and Mail


After 50 years, iconic Salvador Dali painting leaves Beaverbrook gallery

By the Branta Webcrawler • Jun 23rd, 2010 • Category: Editor's Picks, From the Interweb, News Briefs, Travel

Salvador Dali’s painting Santiago El Grande has been pretty much the first thing visitors see at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery since the gallery’s doors opened in Fredericton in the fall of 1959.
James Adams/Globe and Mail


Atlantic Author Day: Saturday June 26!

By the Branta Webcrawler • Jun 22nd, 2010 • Category: From the Interweb, Goose Lane Authors, Happenings, News Briefs

Atlantic Author Day is coming! On Saturday, June 26th many of the authors featured in the 2010 Summer Reading Guide will be signing books at participating bookstores all over Atlantic Canada…


Atlantic Canada Reads: Book One

By the Branta Webcrawler • Jun 2nd, 2010 • Category: Book Reviews, From the Interweb, Happenings, News Briefs

NSCAD graduate and Burning Rock member Lisa Moore is the reigning queen of CanLit. Few writers can match her evocative, elegant way with words, and for that she is a multi-award-winning author, twice nominated for the country’s most esteemed literary award: the Giller Prize.
February is her latest novel, said to be her masterpiece, and Salty Ink certainly thinks so.


The fantasies of Tyra Banks…

By the Branta Webcrawler • May 11th, 2010 • Category: From the Interweb, In Brief, News Briefs, On Writing, Reading Horror(s)

…for all ages?


Several Fiddlehead entries on This Year’s National Magazine Award Shortlists

By the Branta Webcrawler • May 6th, 2010 • Category: Editor's Picks, From the Interweb, News Briefs

Yesterday, the shortlists for many, many different categories in the 33rd annual National Magazine Awards were announced. New Brunswick’s highly regarded Fiddlehead scored big, with:
Three nominations in the fiction category: Jeff Park’s “Back to Disney,” Steven Heighton’s “Shared Room on Union,” and J. M. Villaverde’s “The Spanish Hour.”
Two nominations in the poetry category: [...]


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