Posted AT 5:27 AM EDT on 25/07/08
Summer theatre offers up frivolous fun – and I think I like it
In most cultural quadrants, silly season is upon us. Normally sane film critics have gone batty debating the Oscar hopes of the latest big-screen Joker, while Canadian television critics have pinned the hopes of a nation on the umpteenth show about an elite police force.
Theatre is largely immune to this summer frivolity. While readers peel open murder mysteries on the beach, it is Shakespeare who pops up in parks across the country.
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Television
- John Doyle All a vampire needs is a little love
WebSeven
- Ivor Tossell Harper joins the twittering class
- Marriage proposals and political pitches, in bite-sized bits
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The twit's tweet
50 Greatest Books
- Daring to discuss
a forbidden topic - The Earth is not the centre of the universe?
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Ingram 2.0
- Inside R.E.M.'s online music strategy
- The head of technology at Warner Brothers goes into detail about how the band used the Web to re-connect with its fans
Gamer
- Scott Colbourne A legendary game fumbles the ball
- The eponymous star of Madden NFL 09 looks like Obi Wan Kenobi as projected by a trash-can-shaped droid in Star Wars
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Rush to the Oscars
Television
- She vacuums! She cooks! She pumps gas!
- Pamela Anderson insists her new show is less about spray tans and more about empowerment
Renzetti
- Tate Britain: Art with legs
- In Martin Creed's
Work No. 850, the neoclassical expanse of the Duveen gallery will be filled with the sound of pounding feet
Society
- Mercer Union makes a move
- Toronto gallery gets a new home
Pop Rocks
- Lynn Crosbie She's just too sweet to be true
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