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Category: Getting Outside

  • Vancouver Opera’s La Traviata Back Stage Party

    Truly a fabulous evening at Vancouver Opera’s opening night of LA Traviata. I will post more a little later but for now I will just add these photos; First is this pic of me and Sir Jonathan Miller, yes, “Sir” meaning he has been knighted. However, he much prefers to be addressed as Doctor Miller.…

  • Opening Night of La Traviata at Vancouver Opera

    I have just sat down at the live-bloggers table at Vancouver Opera opening night. We are running a little late so I will leave it at that and go for my back stage tour. Here is the classy photo of my new suit jacket. If you look carefully in the back ground you can see…

  • Vancouver Opera’s Performance of La Traviata

    On Saturday April 30th I will be attending the opening night of Vancouver Opera’s performance of La Traviata. Yes I am excited about seeing Sir Jonathan Miller direct Guiseppe Verdi’s most popular opera but at this time I have a much more pressing question or concern on my mind; whatever shall I wear to this…

  • Bard on the Beach Stage Prep

    I thought I would take a cruise by Vanier Park to see how the site prep is coming for this year’s Bard on the Beach. I was a little surprised to see how little has been done to prep the theatre up to this point. However, I also know that the crew who construct and…

  • Bard on the Beach to Celebrate Bill Shakespeare’s Birthday

    On May 5th the Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival will celebrate Shakespeare’s 447th birthday with its annual fundraising event: BILL’S BIRTHDAY BREAKFAST. This festive and informative morning will take place from 7:30 to 9:00am at the Sheraton Wall Centre. While guests enjoy a delicious breakfast, the four directors who will stage this summer’s productions…

  • Exciting Times for Stacey Robinsmith dot com

    These are exciting times in the editorial offices of Stacey Robinsmith dot com. First off, April 30th is opening night of the Vancouver Opera performance of La Traviata and as usual, we will be live-blogging the opera. You can check-in here on the night of the 30th for a sneak peak behind the stage before…

  • Bard on the Beach Pre-Season Lectures at SFU Woodward’s

    If you are anything like me and have assumed that The War of the Roses was originally a movie starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner and not actually related in any way to Shakespeare’s Henry the VI, then this free lecture series is for you (and me). The first lecture features Bard on the Beach’s…

  • Fairmont Empress Gold; the Rooms

    Yesterday I wrote a little thing about my lovely experience with the Fairmont Empress Gold Lounge. However, the Lounge experience is only part of the service; guests in the Fairmont Gold also stay in completely renovated and up-dated rooms in the Gold part of the Fairmont Empress. While I love the heritage feel of the…

  • Fairmont Empress; the Gold Lounge Experience

    Last weekend I had to go to our provincial capital for a few days of business. Because I was going to be working in and around the Legislature, I decided to stay in the iconic Fairmont Empress Hotel. Now, in the nature of disclosure, I have to say that I stayed in the Fairmont Empress…

  • The Bachelor; After the Final Rose

    Okay I admit it, I watch The Bachelor; yes, it is my guilty pleasure. And seeing as last night was the finale, the after-the-final-rose thingy, I can not help but comment. Brad, you are such a bocking moron. What on earth were you thinking? You have a beautiful woman who tells you she loves you,…