When you sign on to sit through the third Chanhassen Dinner Theatre production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” for the third time in six seasons, you sort of grit your teeth and wonder [...]
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Salzburg: Austria
May 2, 2013 by Carla Waldemar
The hills are alive, all right—a mighty fortress rising here, a somber monastery anchoring another peak, and, yes, everywhere, the sound of music . It’s Salzburg, and I’m infatuated with—no, not Maria. Mozart!— the city’s [...]
Queen of the River
April 4, 2013 by Carla Waldemar
Jane Swenson is not smiling. Her photo in the Winona County History Center is all that remains of the town’s first white settler, who landed among the Dakotas in 1838 and bid adieu the very [...]
My New Kentucky Home
March 7, 2013 by Carla Waldemar
I’m in George Clooney’s bed. Alas, he’s not. But it’s the room he chooses in the French Quarter Inn when he returns to Maysville, Kentucky for movie premieres and to remember his Aunt Rosemary (whose [...]
Viva Cuba!
February 7, 2013 by Carla Waldemar
I’m riding shotgun along the city’s main avenue at 50 mph in a 1959 Dodge, inhaling the sultry sea breeze that fans the Old City’s contagious energy. This is Havana, where time is frozen. “Muy [...]
Knoxville’s Three Bs: Beer, Bacon and Biking
January 10, 2013 by Carla Waldemar
It goes by the name of Tennessee, but I’d call it the Republic of Bacon. Consider Knoxville its Ground Zero when it comes to pork products, where lard, sausage, and country ham round out the [...]
Taking It For Granted
November 29, 2012 by Carla Waldemar
Factoid for the day: The most recognized, and lampooned, painting in the world is the Mona Lisa. Coming in a strong second is Grant Wood’s American Gothic, a stoic Iowa farmer and his spouse. The [...]
We Love You, Birdie
November 29, 2012 by Carla Waldemar
Think of Chanhassen’s current show (and, for that matter, all the theatres’ productions) as a much-needed buffer zone between November’s political bombardment and the upcoming holiday melee. Bye Bye Birdie erases the divide between red [...]
He(ART)land
November 1, 2012 by Carla Waldemar
I’m one of, oh, 600 or so people behind the velvet rope at 1 a.m. waiting for admission. A New York nightclub? A premiere in L.A.? Nope. An art opening in, ahem, Winnipeg, on the [...]
All Hail Halifax
November 1, 2012 by Carla Waldemar
Talk about prime real estate: Ever since Viking times, folks have flocked to Halifax, charmed out of their skins by its perfect harbor—a deep, 11-mile basin guarding the Atlantic. The Scots named the province Nova [...]
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