Things to do with kids in Calgary that don’t suck for grown-ups: Family Yoga
Double downward dog
If you’re like me, you are constantly choosing how to parcel out your time to everyone in your family and still fit in a decent workout. Strolls to the playground don’t cut it, and I’m not one to do that “playground routine” that I have heard was developed by a couple of moms who obviously don’t mind looking like fools.
Avenue CUFF Review: The Life and Death of a Porno Gang
Mladen Djordjevic, a 30-something, Serbian director and screenwriter, seems to be obsessed with porn.
To clarify, not obsessed in a "sits at home, with a jar of hand cream and box of tissues," disgusting kind of obsessed with porn way. On the contrary, Djordjevic is consumed with the sociological idea of porn, the effect the medium has on culture, in particular its place in Serb culture.
2010 Underwear Affair Kicks Off With Giant Undie Race
Teams of two hopped into King Hippo-size ginch and ran down an obstacle course on Stephen Avenue to launch the Alberta Cancer Foundation's Underwear Affair this afternoon. The course, set up between 1st and 2nd St. SW, had teams running out of the gate, circling pylons, skipping rope, doing their best cheerleader impressions - complete with pom-pom waving, and hauling back to the finish line, all the while attached by a giant set of tighty-whites.
Avenue CUFF Review: The Queen of Hearts
Valerie Donzelli is the one woman show behind the story of a beguiling, yet tragic and lucid chanteuse in La Reine des Pommes (English title: The Queen of Hearts).
The film marks the French actress's first role as not only star, but director and screen play writer.
Things to do with kids in Calgary that don’t suck for grown-ups: Saturday Morning at the Symphony with the CPO
Honesty, I don’t often listen to classical music, save for Sunday mornings or when I have a bad case of kid-related sensory overload. The sum total of my musical expertise is encapsulated by my long-ago, much-regretted engagement to a sax player, and faking it through the alto lines of a local choir, until morning sickness crushed that aspiration.
