Super Mario: Passing the Baton
Famed Canadian Mario Bernardi, conductor of National Arts Centre Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic and CBC Radio Orchestra, dies at age 82
Queen Elizabeth: 60 years on the throne
Britain’s Queen celebrates the 60th anniversary of her coronation.
Wheat and wine shortages create communion crisis
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Food shortages and foreign exchange restrictions in Venezuela are causing sacramental scarcities. [“The grape juice won’t transmogrify, but we do have GMO wheat wafers”]
Wine “Cell-ar”
Prisoners on Gorgona Island in Italy become proficient wine producers.
Can you teach an old dog new sniffs?
States where pot has been decriminalized must re-train drug-sniffing dogs to ignore it
Farewell to Henry Morgentaler
We all walk taller thanks to Morgentaler:
Dingbat!
Chinese student gains international infamy after carving “Ding Jinhau visited here” on a 3500-year-old Egyptian tomb in Luxor
From Forests to Boards
Eco-activist, Tzeporah Berman, once branded an “enemy of the state” and a “whacked-out nature-worshipper” receives honorary doctorate from UBC for her work taking her environmental message into the boardrooms of the most powerful corporations.
May 29th: Happy 100th Birthday to Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring”
Diaghilev to Stravinsky: “Don’t worry Igor. They’ll love it in 100 years!”
The Fall: Apple’s Cooked Books?
Apple CEO Tim Cook testifies before a Senate Committee about his Company’s tax-avoidance practices.
Hung, Drawn and Cultured 