Wine, Candles and Music in Fredericksburg, Texas Julie Kalan March 24, 2017 5499 Fredericksburg, Texas In the heart of the Texas Hill Country, about an hour northwest of San Antonio, the small town of Fredericksburg beckons visitors with shopping, dining, wineries and charm. Founded in the...
Welcome to San Antonio Julie Kalan February 22, 2017 6962 Visiting San Antonio, deep in the heart of south/central Texas, I half expected long-horn cattle and saloons with swinging doors. What I found was a city where the blending of Texan and Mexican cultures is much...
Gardens of Light at the Montreal Botanical Garden Julie Kalan September 27, 2016 10897 Gardens of Light Each year, autumn in Montreal is heralded by a chill in the air, the leaves transitioning to their golden and red hues and the daylight hours slowly growing shorter. At the Botanical Garden an...
Toulouse-Lautrec Illustrates the Belle Époque Julie Kalan August 27, 2016 4498 Toulouse-Lautrec Illustrates the Belle Époque At the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts During the Belle Époque, Parisian nightlife flourished in the burgeoning cabarets of Montmartre. Toulouse-Lautrec had the rema...
Escape Earth’s Gravity and Travel to Mars Julie Kalan July 7, 2016 4426 Escape Earth’s Gravity and Travel to Mars At the Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium Since the dawn of humankind, we have stared up into the night sky and pondered its endless mysteries. The ancients played connect-t...
New Orleans’ Best Comes to Montreal Jazz Fest Julie Kalan May 29, 2016 7209 The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Trombone Shorty, Wynton Marsalis, and Christian Scott at the 2016 Montreal Jazz Festival At the dawn of the 20th century, New Orleans birthed a new art form – jazz. Flag beare...
Pompeii – a Roman city frozen in time Julie Kalan March 13, 2016 8307 At the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Pompeii, a Roman port city along the Bay of Naples, met an untimely and catastrophic end in 79 AD, when Mount Vesuvius buried the city under metres of volcanic ash. For the ...
Investigating Agatha Christie at Pointe-à-Callière until April 17 Julie Kalan January 17, 2016 7186 Agatha Christie, “The Queen of Crime,” wrote 66 mysteries, 6 novels under the pen name Mary Westmacott, 150 short stories, 18 plays and 2 memoirs. Her work has been translated into over 100 languages and sold o...
Metamorphoses: In Rodin’s Studio at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Julie Kalan August 17, 2015 10417 Thanks in large part to The Thinker (Rodin’s pensive, seated statue); Rodin has garnered notoriety well beyond the aficionados of the art world. Back in 1963, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts held the first R...
Huey Lewis and the News Back in Montreal! Julie Kalan June 15, 2015 6404 It was the summer of 1986, almost three decades ago, when Huey Lewis and the News last performed in Montreal. It’s been a long, long wait. But finally their blend of marvelous harmonies and joyous rock will onc...
