I 've not run out of songs— Lady of Songs, Christy Essien Igbokwe 10/08/06 Christy Essien Igbokwe, remember her? She once ruled the Nigerian music scene with her soulful, but moral songs that have remained evergreen ........
If Mel Brooks' motto is "It's good to be the king," Sam Shepard's might be (apologies to Shakespeare) "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." Reversals reverberate throughout Shepard's oeuvre, with the once-mighty cowed, confronted, and laid low.
Scotland Yard's "cash for honours" investigation is believed to be struggling to uncover an incriminating paper trail that proves peerages were sold illegally by Tony Blair's government.
Baltimore writer-director Mark Redfield's The Death of Poe, a dramatization of the famed mystery writer's final days (he died in Baltimore, under circumstances still not fully explained, on Oct. 7, 1849), will have its world premiere Wednesday at The Charles, 1711 N. Charles St. Redfield plays Poe; others in the cast include Kevin G. Shinnick, Jennifer Rouse, Tony Tsendeas, Kim Hannold and J.R.
Speaker Margaret Wilson is foreshadowing a rewrite of Parliament's funding rules after the Auditor-General's report on election spending is delivered next week.
After casting a ballot in his Montreal riding of Saint-Laurent-Cartierville yesterday, Stephane Dion said the results show he will be a force to be reckoned with on the convention floor.