Jamie Foxx lays on the charm at Fallsview Casino

From the Toronto Sun: Highly accomplished Oscar-and-Grammy-winning actor-singer-comedian Jamie Foxx is a student of classical music who began playing piano when he was five years old. But you never would have known it from the first of his two back-to-back shows at Fallsview Casino on Wednesday night.

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Tweet: The stage has been taken down in Queen Victoria Pa…

The stage has been taken down in Queen Victoria Park http://t.co/Aob79Jxk

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Marineland jingle McNeil’s biggest hit

From the Niagara Falls Review: She may not visit often, but singer Suzie McNeil and Niagara Falls are now forever linked. Singing one of Ontario’s most familiar commercial jingles will do that. Come summertime, it’s McNeil’s voice you hear on TV telling you — over and over — everyone loves Marineland. “It’s pretty incognito,” she…

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    Ripley’s Aquarium architects

    Although it is now unlikely that the Ripley’s Aquarium will ever be built, the architects that were involved are B+H Architects. Their web site has a conceptual drawing of the building and some information on the design: Apparently they were also involved with the design of the Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort.

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    Google auto-complete entries for Niagara Falls

    I was watching some of the WIRED’s Autocomplete Interviews and I thought it would be fun to see what some of the common searches are for Niagara Falls: Decent questions. I’m sure that all sorts of different attractions would love to have their names show up automatically! I would think that Niagara Falls is considered…

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    Twitter updates for 2010-03-08

    There's lots of work going on, but there is still no sign up indicating that the future Jimmy Buffett Margaritaville is going to be there. #

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    Sullivan laying low after latest falls stunt

    From the Niagara Falls Review: Daredevil Dean Sullivan is back in town. Sullivan filmed two stunts this month in which he used his face-first rappelling technique to jump from the top of the Niagara gorge, near the Horseshoe Falls. “(Wednesday’s) was great. It was awesome. It was fantastic. It took me a couple seconds,” he…

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      Live in Canada! but only just

      On a previous post, regular reader Dan commented that Regis and Kelly are coming to Niagara Falls. I couldn’t find anything to confirm this (on any of the news sites, or on the official Regis & Kelly site). I’ll post more when/if I find out more. However, I did come across an old article (from…

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        U.S. bill would delay passport requirement

        From the St. Catharines Standard: Passports won’t be necessary for Americans and Canadians entering the United States by land until mid-2009 – a year later than planned – if a budget bill passed Thursday by Congress is approved by U.S. President George W. Bush. A provision of a budget bill passed Thursday pushes back by…

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