Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and radio producer Steve Clark, co-hosts of VPM’s popular and long running radio program What’s Bugging You?, have joined forces once again. Their engaging, wide-ranging, and humorous explorations into the world of insects and entomology are presented now for the first time on screen as a new animated series.
Seven Writers Selected For Echo Theater Company s 2021 Playwrights Lab
Selected artists include Amanda L. Andrei, June Carryl, Ricardo Perez Gonzalez, Hannah Kenah, Daria Miyeko Marinelli, Liza Powel O Brien and LaDarrion Williamsby BWW News Desk
Los Angeles-based Echo Theater Company, dedicated to creating new work for the theater, has announced the names of seven playwrights who will participate in the company s 2021 Playwrights Lab.
Facilitated by co-directors Brian Otaño and Hannah Wolf, playwrights Amanda L. Andrei, Diana Burbano, June Carryl, Ricardo Perez Gonzalez, Hannah Kenah, Liza Powel O Brien and LaDarrion Williams will work together to develop new material that will be presented in LABFest, the LAB s festival of public readings at the end of the year.
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17-year cicadas are coming! But which Brood will they be and where will they show up? This 17-year cicada (
Magicicada septendecim) is from Brood XIV taken at Breaks Interstate Park in 2008. (Photo Courtesy: Art Evans)
Like the return of a summer blockbuster movie, millions of cicadas, with their ear-piercing mating calls, are about to burrow up from underground after a 17-year hiatus. But the questions are when, where and which type?
“There s a lot of buzz this year, pardon the pun, about the emergence of brood 10, or as it s written Brood X,” said entomologist Dr. Art Evans, who you may remember from VPM’s long running program “What’s Bugging You?”
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The quest to prank, punk or trick others takes centre stage Thursday April Fools’ Day! It’s a strange tradition that dates back hundreds of years.
Early settlers in Calgary maybe even a great, great-grandparent would have seen the Daily Herald in its early years of the 1880s and 1890s already reporting on April Fools’ Day tricks that occurred. Details were sometimes sketchy, as this April 3, 1895 report shows.
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That story is almost as intriguing as this one from April 2, 1901 one sentence, no further explanation given. Guess you had to be there . . .