From Playbill.com: Tony Award-nominated composer-lyricist-librettist Michael John LaChiusa takes on an American icon in Queen of the Mist, starring Tony nominee Mary Testa as Anna Edson Taylor, the first person to survive the plunge over Niagara Falls. The Transport Group’s environmental staging begins performances Oct. 18 at The Gym at Judson Memorial Church… Here’s how…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Bringing the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show to Ontario will cost four taxpayer-funded funded tourist agencies a total of $450,000, according to the Niagara-based tourism organization involved in the effort to bring segments of the ABC late-night show to Canada. “There is funding involved. It’s about a half a million dollars…
From the Niagara Falls Review: The Jimmy Kimmel Show will be filming segments in Niagara Falls next week, but it’s still unclear whether Kimmel himself will be here. Robin Garrett, CEO of the Tourism Partnership of Niagara, said there’s no guarantee the popular ABC talk show host will appear, but “we are negotiating that as…
If you’ve been following the blog for a long time, you will probably know that I am a fan of the Drabble cartoon. You may even recall that the characters in Drabble travelled to Niagara Falls 6 years ago and I was even able to contact Kevin Fagan for some comments. Today’s Drabble comic isn’t…
From Niagara This Week: As a highly successful fantasy writer, Chris Van Allsburg knows first-hand that the only limitation on a great story is one’s imagination. But when it comes to dabbling in reality, the renowned children’s novelist and illustrator had to peer over the edge and simply hope for the best with his latest…
I don’t know where I’ve been for the last few months, but I’m just hearing about this now (even though the earliest reference I can see about this is back in May). West 49 has an event called Take the Cake that will take place at the beginning of October: To mark 15 years as…
I don’t know anything about this, but apparently there is going to be a play that is “about a real-life lady daredevil who survived a plunge over Niagara Falls”. The play will be about Annie Taylor.
I’m closer to Christmas 2010 than to Christmas 2009, but hey, better late than never… As many of you know, Greg Frewin had a Christmas special broadcast on CBC last December. It was called Greg Frewin Magic Man Home For The Holidays. The show was an hour long and chronicled his planning of an outdoor…
From Chicago Breaking Sports: From the raging rapids of Niagara Falls to a perch high above his hometown to an old-fashioned floor hockey game, Patrick Kane had quite a day with the Stanley Cup. The Blackhawks winger, who scored the game-winning goal in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup finals against the Flyers in June,…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Renowned motocross racer and tattoo guru Carey Hart is coming to town. And he’s bringing his wife with him. That would be pop star Pink. The couple will be here Aug. 21, to mark the grand opening of the Hart & Huntington Tattoo Co. on Fallsview Boulevard. A full day…