An award-winning journalist, Brian Stewart began his career as a political reporter for The Gazette in Montreal, before joining CBC in 1971. Now 65, Stewart has reported from innumerable war zones and ravaged countries, including El Salvador, Ethiopia, Beirut and Sudan. Graeme Smith, 28, is technically The Globe and Mail’s Moscow bureau chief but spends most of his… Continue reading Face to Face
Series: Spring 2008
So You Want To Be A Restaurant Critic?
If we’re not being vilified as grim reapers with the despotic power to make or break a business, we are mocked as culinary dilettantes who couldn’t poach our way out of a papillote. Aw, you cluck. Those poor gluttons, force-fed with foie gras and truffles night after night. What hardships they endure! Okay, I’ll admit… Continue reading So You Want To Be A Restaurant Critic?
The Trouble with Harry
The archives on the third floor of York University’s Scott Library aren’t exactly welcoming. The buzzer-only admittance, white tables and fluorescent lighting suggest a trip through the Cuckoo’s Nest rather than any hallowed halls of academia. “I’m looking for the Harry Rasky archives,” I tell an archivist. “Sure,” she says. “What did you want to… Continue reading The Trouble with Harry
Holy Mackinaw!
For some people, home smells like baking bread, apples and cinnamon, maybe even hay and manure. For David Estok, it smells like ink. When he arrived for his first day as editor-in-chief of The Hamilton Spectatorand climbed up the back stairs, boxes in hand, the smell of the ink from the presses down the hall hit… Continue reading Holy Mackinaw!
Quick-Change Artist
Fred Kuntz specializes in landscapes. He’s always been serious about painting—to the point of mounting a two-week show in 1992 at Gallery 360 called “A Winter’s Walk.” The exhibit showcased a series of 24 Toronto streetscapes; 16 sold. The rest, along with some related lithographs, still sit in the basement of his Port Credit, Ontario… Continue reading Quick-Change Artist