Published:
12:30 PM January 23, 2021
Updated:
1:22 PM January 23, 2021
A delighted Sir Michael Caine with the blue plaque he unveiled outside the school he attended as a wartime evacuee in North Runcton.
- Credit: John Hocknell
Pablo Fanque s blue plaque
- Credit: Antony Kelly
The Beatles, Norwich
On May 17, 1963 Beatlemania came to Norwich when the Fab Four played their one and only concert in the city. The venue was the Grosvenor Rooms in Prince of Wales Road and the queue of eager fans stretched back to the ABC Cinema. To mark the show, the EDP and Norwich School of Art and Design (now Norwich University of the Arts) put up a blue plaque on Grosvenor House as part of a series highlighting surprising aspects of the county s cultural heritage. Another of the city s blue plaques has a Beatles link too. At John Lewis on All Saints Green there s a Discover Norwich blue plaque dedicated to Pablo Fanque. Real name William Darby, he was the first black British circus prop
Published:
12:30 PM January 23, 2021
Updated:
1:22 PM January 23, 2021
A delighted Sir Michael Caine with the blue plaque he unveiled outside the school he attended as a wartime evacuee in North Runcton.
- Credit: John Hocknell
Pablo Fanque s blue plaque
- Credit: Antony Kelly
The Beatles, Norwich
On May 17, 1963 Beatlemania came to Norwich when the Fab Four played their one and only concert in the city. The venue was the Grosvenor Rooms in Prince of Wales Road and the queue of eager fans stretched back to the ABC Cinema. To mark the show, the EDP and Norwich School of Art and Design (now Norwich University of the Arts) put up a blue plaque on Grosvenor House as part of a series highlighting surprising aspects of the county s cultural heritage. Another of the city s blue plaques has a Beatles link too. At John Lewis on All Saints Green there s a Discover Norwich blue plaque dedicated to Pablo Fanque. Real name William Darby, he was the first black British circus prop
John McDonald January 16, 2021
This week is about Port – but don’t turn the page. Unfortunately, too many read or hear Port and think of a sweet, expensive red wine. Port producers are actually some of of the most versatile winemakers around. Most make a wide range of Douro River Valley reds and whites, which are in the $8-$20 range, in addition to their Porto. You see, Port is not a varietal wine but a blend, and as such, it is quite dependent on the winemaker’s art and palate. Rather than attempting to enlighten in a few hundred words, please visit this website for a fairly comprehensive overview: www.liquor.com/what-is-port-wine-5075584. In addition, let’s review several wines I have sampled that are not found in the article.
In 1999, The American Film Institute named Cary Grant the second greatest male screen legend in U.S. movie history, with only Humphrey Bogart topping him. During his lifetime he was already iconic among his peers, with Tony Curtis imitating him to woo Marilyn Monroe in the comedy classic
Some Like It Hot (1959).
And Grant is still popular today, as his transcending-his-period performances seem timeless after 80+ years, despite his last film being released in 1966, and having died almost 35 years ago. Local SF/British film critic David Thomson considers Grant the most important actor in cinema history.
All these accolades are no surprise to his latest biographer, former literary critic Scott Eyman, chronicler of other Hollywood luminaries such as John Wayne, Cecil B. DeMille, John Ford, Henry Fonda and James Stewart. Eyman felt enough time had passed to reassess Grant the man and his career before many of the people who knew him died.
LONDON, ONT. It’s been a unique journey for Irma Joeveer and Michelle Debus. After spending decades in the IT sector they decided they needed a change and switched gears in a big way. They partnered with Archie Leach and his daughter Martha to open Paradigm Spirits Co. in London’s Old East Village. “We started with a dream, and we built a business plan,” says Joeveer. “We had no idea we were going to make changes as big as the one we made, but here we are three years later in our brand new facility.” Debus says they first took a course in Vancouver, “After that we went down to Kentucky, bourbon culture down there caught our eye and caught our taste buds and this is where we ve ended up.”