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Arts

Toronto's Old Soul 

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Profile of Toronto artist Brian Harvey 
published in Toronto Home in 2014. 
Harvey's evocative oil paintings of 
historical and gritty areas of Toronto 
hearken back to a bygone era.   


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From 1996 to 2002, I covered the arts in Quebec for the Globe and Mail. 
 Below, are a few of the articles I wrote during that time:  


Larger than life and twice as funny

Preview piece on comic  Susan Jeremy's show P.S. 69. 
She brought her one-woman show,  set in a New York public school,
​to Montreal in 2002
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King of kibitz makes career out of clowning

​A profile on Fyvush Finkel in 2000. The former Yiddish theatre actor, 
who found TV fame later in life, was in Montreal to perform in a play  
​by Sam Gesser.
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Wild design, everyday use

​A 1998 profile on iconoclastic industrial designer Gaetano Pesce, who says unique furniture pieces and factory production need 
not be mutually exclusive.
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Radio stations ponder fate of Stern's show

In 1997, Howard Stern's syndicated radio show came to Montreal. The federal broadcast standards office was threatening to take him off the air.