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100 years
A hundred years ago, when the Saint John Art Club was founded, the monthly meetings were formal events where the men wore tuxedos and the ladies donned elegant evening gowns. Hopeful members were vetted by the executive before getting a yea or nay in a general members' vote.
From one medium to another
I've just finished reading two novels about the artist Vermeer, The Girl with the Pearl Earring and The Girl in Hyacinth Blue. In the first Tracy Chevalier convincingly imagines the life of the girl in the painting of that name and concocts her relationship to the artist.
Darren Emenau
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Muddy beginnings
On potter Darren Emenau's website is a picture of glorious mud. It glistens and beckons, a lustrous brown. Emenau is a true appreciator of it and digs it up close to his creek-side home outside Browns Flat so he can turn it into something completely breath-taking; but something that isn't too far from its muddy origins.
The call for manners
My husband and I enjoy your columns. We have had lively discussion with friends regarding napkins and seating arrangements. I have three questions. First, how should one answer the telephone at one's home? And how should employees be instructed to answer a business phone? Thirdly, shouldn't one announce who is making the phone call? I find it disconcerting when I have no idea to whom I'm speaking.
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New Brunswick<s reading
1. Brisingr: Inheritance Book Three by Christopher Paolini (Random House)
Story, style and truth
On the eve of the next federal election, it is good medicine to revisit an earlier Conservative epoch in André Alexis' new novel, Asylum. The story is set in Ottawa in the mid-1980s, just after the Conservatives win the largest parliamentary majority in Canadian history. It is a deliciously comic cocktail of a book that transports us to a country led by Brian Mulroney, "the chin that walked like a man," a "self-important martinet" of a leader, but one, at least, with a vision for this country.
Author reading
André Alexis reads from 'Asylum' as part of the Lorenzo Reading Series in Saint John on Friday, 7 p.m., Ganong Hall Lecture Theatre, University of New Brunswick, Saint John campus. Free, all welcome.
Agenda
Agenda is Salon's weekly look at what's going on around the province.
The closing act
Allan Kelly sang almost to the day he died - Wednesday of last week at 105.
A dark dance
Ballet versions of Shakespeare's plays are nothing new, although they have tended towards his better-known works: the deliciously doomed romance at the heart of Romeo and Juliet, the zany mix-ups that drive A Midsummer Night's Dream, the well-known cautionary tale of Hamlet.
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The manuscripts in my attic
For my birthday I received The War of Art by the novelist Steven Pressfield and The Creative Habit by the choreographer Twyla Tharp, both full of advice for creative people. I gave advice in writers' workshops for more than 30 years; I often wonder if I did more harm than good.
Mario Doucette
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Take that, Toronto!
It costs as much as a small house for Ingrid Mueller to exhibit at the Toronto International Art Fair, a behemoth show at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, but the owner of Ingrid Mueller Art Concepts gallery in Fredericton says it is worth it.
The loss of grammar in this, the instant age
Office etiquette is a big topic and an important part of the efficiency and atmosphere of our busy work days. I recently received the following e-mail from a gentleman in the northern part of the province.
New Brunswick's reading
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Agenda
Agenda is Salon's weekly look at what's going on around the province.
Phoenix at Sainte-Anne
Shakespeare recognized the power of myth and resurgence; appreciating that at times a tragic end allows for a promising beginning.
Docents' choice
Of the more than 7,300 days docents have given to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton every minute is appreciated, Bernard Riordon, gallery director, said Sept. 16 at an opening reception for Docents' Choice: Canadian Acquisitions from the Past 20 Years.
The amazing mysteries of language
When I had just turned four, I stayed with my grandmother for a week. I know precisely how old I was because the Great Hurricane of 1938 came through Massachusetts while I was visiting, and my grandmother made me sit up downstairs one whole night because she was afraid a tree would fall on the second storey.
Glenn Priestley
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Sculpting foliage
With a blue sky overhead, glorious green grapevines stretching to the horizon and nine enthusiastic people at rapt attention, artist Richard Flynn was in his element.
The origins of etiquette
So where did all these rules for good manners and proper etiquette originate?
Margot Livesey excels in her fresh prose and complex characters
Abandonment, adultery, betrayal, aberrant sexual proclivities and subtler sins of omission collide and collapse in a suicide note.
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