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    theatre of the absurd

    “It’s one of those things a person has to do; sometimes, a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.” — Edward Albee, The Zoo Story A play in one act, The Zoo Story was written by the late American playwright Edward Albee. According…

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    Johanne Provençal

    25 Mar 2024
    all, arts, culture, music, everyday life, travel
    Edward Albee, The Zoo Story, theatre of the absurd
  • visual cortex tinkering

    visual cortex tinkering

    I have burned through so many morning candles already this year. That’s one of my usual remedies … to combat the grey daytime sky, the snowless grey ground, the leafless grey trees. It doesn’t tend to bother me, the grey. This year was different. This year it bothered me. On one of those grey days…

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    Johanne Provençal

    14 Mar 2024
    all, everyday life, research and academics
  • Nuit Blanche

    Nuit Blanche

    I went looking for the origin story of Nuit Blanche. The usual online search results did not satisfy, so I logged into my university library to get at the journal databases, just to verify (am down with the peer-reviewed research, how could I not be?). The search engines and the virtual library stacks both led…

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    Johanne Provençal

    29 Feb 2024
    all, arts, culture, music, events & festivals, nightlife
    24 Hours of Vinyl, Edward Burtynsky, Nuit Blanche
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