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	<title>Creative Discontent &#187; The Arts</title>
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		<title>Nights on the town</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I participated in a focus group that was part of a study commissioned by a theatre company in Calgary, to explore theatre-going trends and opinions in the city.  The focus group that I was part of was one of three types:  people who have been to the theatre within the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a thing for death on New Year's Eve, apparently &#8212; the last two years have been seasons one and two, respectively, of <i>Dead Like Me</i>, and we also have <i>Pushing Daisies</i>, which we didn't get to tonight, but which we'll be watching in the next couple of days.]]></description>
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		<title>Take the Name</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I bear witness as an artist, as a Christian, as a person of faith.  I take these names &#8212; do I take them in vain?]]></description>
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		<title>Through the wardrobe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alida</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've talked before about adaptations and maintaining the integrity of the work, and there are certain movies or adaptations that I won't see because I enjoyed the original too much to risk being disappointed by an adaptation that falls short.  If the story is misinterpreted or characters don't look the way I think they should or the overarching themes are viewed differently than I've always seen them (not to mention the disturbing propensity for adaptations to change the endings of the original work), it can turn the experience of a beloved story into a bittersweet (perhaps more bitter than sweet) shadow of what it should be.]]></description>
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		<title>A story with dubious source material</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read somewhere (and I paraphrase greatly here) that true humility is seeing ourselves as we truly are.  Humility is seeing ourselves <i>honestly</i>, and while that means seeing the less-than-desirable qualities, it also means seeing the good ones.]]></description>
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		<title>Dinner and a movie</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, this was the kind of weekend that makes my heart sing.  Meals with four friends, two plays, one movie, and a couple of hours on the phone with Colin makes for a much-needed break from the routine.]]></description>
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		<title>Five years later</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The one &#8220;real&#8221; class that I&#8217;m taking this semester is an Entrepreneurship class, which is really kind of a goal-setting and career-planning class &#8212; you know, the kind that almost every school offers in the last year or semester before graduation.  In some programs, it&#8217;s a mandatory class; this one isn&#8217;t, but it&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First of many steps</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got my start in the arts in church.  I sang in the kids&#8217; choir (which my mom directed), got my first speaking parts in musicals, and did special music on Sunday mornings, all starting from the time I was 5 years old.  My first full-length script was produced there; I started directing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweetness and light</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We saw The Ugly Truth last weekend &#8212; with friends; it was their choice of movie, not ours &#8212; and it was pretty much exactly what I expected it to be.  Lots of crude humor, lots of denigration of healthy relationships, and a very dim view of men.
Now, I don’t have a problem with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the little things</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few things that are disappointing me (just a little bit) right now:
Standing Ovations
We saw two shows this weekend.  One of them deserved a standing ovation.  The other was okay, but not brilliant.  However, they both received ovations.
It&#8217;s sad that the power of a standing ovation has been lost — it&#8217;s expected, [...]]]></description>
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