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The Langham Court Theatre, the oldest community theatre in Western Canada, celebrates its 84th season this year - but it is also saying goodbye to its head scenic carpenter, Bill Adams, who is retiring after 15 seasons.
Starbucks partners with style duo

Starbucks partners with style duo

Not expecting the indie fashion darlings of Rodarte and the in-every-neighbourhood coffee retailer Starbucks to be in the same sentence, let alone the same stores? They will be, come Nov. 13. Starbucks Corp.
Did you wash your hands?

Did you wash your hands?

Study shows not all of us wash enough to kill bacteria

For women only - a health benefit from eating plants

Getting a moderate amount of plant substances called flavonoids through food seems to be linked to a lower stomach cancer risk in women, but not in men, a European study suggests.

Halloween events

Movie Monster: Today and Wednesday at Leonardo Da Vinci Centre, 195 Bay St. Become a star of your own Monster Movie with Intrepid Theatre., 3-8 p.m. Cost: $5 child/$15 family. 250-590-6291 or ticketrocket.

Arts

Dogs line up for part in canine comic caper >C4

Escaping the grey Island for Mexico's sunnier shores

As promised last Sunday, here's an update on the wanderings of a shipload of ancients lodged in cruise-ship comfort as they traverse the coastline from B.C. to Mexico and back. Not that there's much to report.

Oops: Harvard-affiliate hospital apologizes for 'weak' study

A Harvard-affiliated hospital is backing away from its decision this week to promote a paper linking the artificial sweetener aspartame and cancer, now saying the evidence was "weak.
Saucy berries enhance roast meats, cheese plates

Saucy berries enhance roast meats, cheese plates

Port wine, spices flavour chutney

Oh, for the carefree days before the lash of matrimony

M y club, as most know, remains my place of choice, a land unto itself. We mems enter with furrowed brows that are unknitted rapidly by the sight of kindly staff running toward us with gleaming martinis at the ready.