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Dream on

"dream of an all-new kitchen: by: Republic, |

‘some time-ago. I. think it was Life or Look,
illustrated with. one of those high-heel-clad -
- poodle- “skirted housewife types, rendered i in pencil
and wash. |
The picture showed a gleaming all-steel fitted.
kitchen, small by today’s standards, but all there
nonetheless. Here’s where the baking pans can be
"stored, for example, there is the perc:and on the’
‘counter, a tall,: angular, elegant salt-and- “pepper
" set.
When I shop for my house, I ask for shelves,

zines promising “Less Clutter!” nor do I yield to
the temptation to take home a hardcover called
“Voluntary Simplicity,” because then I. would need
"to get another bookshelf, magazine rack, or or charm-
ing woven basket. :
Here’s me, in the furniture’ store: “A shelf,”
- Tsay, “Or-some kind’ ‘of cupboard or, basically, a
‘thing for containing things.” Picture’ me dishev-
eled, raggedy, Saturdayish, comb: obviously . lost.
The furniture store staffer. i is Kind, calm, combed,
and helps melook..
*. Helps ‘me find a thing to find my things that I
bought and’ needed and probably | still need but

kitchen. table. The kitchen table is for other uses;
for example, one could eat on it.

“For clothes?” asks the nice Home Furnish-
ings lady. “Yes,” I say, “But also toys, papers,
hats, mitts, gloves, skates, books, movies, and, you
know... stuff.” She nods sympathetically, under-
standingly, leads me to the Pine Collection. “‘Vari-
ous items,” she says. “Yes!” Lrespond, seeing the-..
perfect container for various items, and it’s in my
price range.

Then I buy it and haul it home, and before I can
assemble it, need to figure out where to put it.

Doesn’t quite fit here in the laundry room where

but then where will I put that? One can’t have
Banker’s Boxes in the living room!

Or can one? Let’s stop and think about this for _
aminute. —

New shelf: good. Needs assembly: that i is okey-
dokey. Doesn’t fit in the laundry room, by less than
‘a half-inch: not bad, but worrisome. (DO NOT get

“out the sander at this point, or for that matter, a
power tool of any. description.)

_ Have a seat in the bathroom while you study the
shelving unit that started it all, perfect for the Baby

sembled, ‘and moved twice,”

_ be The Whole Dang Property. There

~ might be a small herd of dinosaurs |
in the Baby Room, but they could
also be in the tub, in front of the

. fridge, or in the fridge beside the
milk.” ;

Remember the: idea of the Baby Room? The
Baby Room is where the baby, and all the baby’s.
things, would be stored. The toys, the diapers, the
sleeping baby, the crying baby; the cute, cute teddy
bear, all there, in that room, nicely decorated, fresh-

ly painted, with sun and air, all right in there. °

In dreaming of The Baby Room, one does not

picture diapers ever making their way into, say,

socks on the coffee table in the living room, what a

dark, stepped on by an obviously surprised and ut-

_terly dismayed husband: that particular noise was
, not imagined.

- The Baby Room tuned out to be The Whole

Dang Property. There might be a small herd of di-

‘ nosaurs in the Baby Room, but they could also be

beside the milk. A toothbrush will be found on the
kitchen floor, like a fork is found on the lawn. A
toddler might have deposited it, or, just as likely,
a grown-up may have set it there just for a minute
while déaling with said Baby Toddler Kid.

When Baby Toddler Kid is old enough to ask
for cookies by their brand name, a mother might
say, “Well, look in the kitchen, that’s where we
usually store the food.” So why, in my house,
would there be a half-eaten Jell-O on the washing
machine? Who said an apple core with baby-teeth

_ marks should be stored on my bedside table? And
no home furnishings storage solution professional
of my acquaintance advised keeping that Juice-box
on the front step.

Considering resale value, ‘remodeling the kitchen
would be the smart thing to do. Think of all those
cupboards and drawers. I dream of a new All-Steel
Kitchen from Republic.

‘headlined an’ad in a 1950s magazine. I'saw .

shelving, I look at storage units. I do not buy maga-. .

..do not have to have on permanent display.on the —

I had pictured it, unless I move this important junk, |}

Room til the new bureau was found, purchased, as-

“The Baby Room turned. out to |

the dining room. And teeny, tiny, incredibly. grimy -

surprise to first see them there!-Or small hard plas--
tic toys underfoot in the hallway, at night, in the ©

"BOB Hoskins and Judi-Dench are the leads
_ in Mrs. Henderson Presents, a comedy set
in London.

- in the tub, in front of the fridge, or in the fridge ©

. era comedy Mrs. Henderson Presents on Feb. 22.

a Hearty determination

_UTTLE Autumn Dimitrov i is focused on her artwork at the Terrace Public Library last week. The S-year-old was one of 20 or 50 children:
who took advantage of the library’s Valentine's. Day card making session. Rg

» DUSTIN QUEZADA PHOTO |

By. DUSTIN QUEZADA ;
SOUTHERN ONTARIO, where singer/songwriter
Gregory Hoskins is from, has 70 per cent of the

Canadian population and, therefore, the bulk of his

- potential audiences.

So why is the 42-year-old performer coming to the
wilds of northwestern B.C.?

“In order to feel like a Canadian artist, you need |

‘to tour the country,” said Hoskins on the eve of his ,
_ sojourn that'll bring his trio to Terrace Feb. 18.

“Because this country’s huge, on a psychic level

‘you can’t stay in southern Ontario,” Hoskins said. “It

works on your head.”

With two international releases, Hoskins is best
known for being the front man for the Stickpeople
during the late 80s and early 90s. ;

But with thé re-release in: 2005 of his highly ac--

claimed solo album King of Good Intentions, Hoskins
is forging into a new phase i in his career that excites
him.
_ “This record has had legs,” said Hoskins, who is
working on a new album due-out this summer.
- But the. live show that Hoskins will bring, with
Gary Craig on the drums and’Joe Phillips on bass, | isa

’ whole other dimension.

*. “The live show is a bit more intense ~ it’s not held
back by time,” Hoskins said. “It’s rattier and more
provocative.”

Hoskins, who grew up in Montreal, says the X-fac-
tor in a live show is the audience.

“It really depends on the crowd,” Hoskins said. “I
meet the audience somewhere and create a little trip.

ake a trip wi

; well-executed, entertaining and disarming,” . °
OK, so maybe he’s not too modest,.but what kind - * COOL: cat Gregory Hoskins brings a

“The whole thing works when I go somewhere and *
they come with me.”
Just what kind of trip is one of “textured stuff” on

‘the guitar.

Hoskins is. comfortable slowing: things. down:or .

picking up the pace, flirting all the while with rhythm
and rhyme, ;

“There’s a joy I have in playing with thyme,”.
Hoskins said, citing Paul Simon as one of his princi-
pal influences. :

And his voice has not only been compared to Si-
mon but also to former Police front man Sting.-

For the younger set, he says his musical style has
drawn comparisons to the likes of Ben Harper and
Jack Johnson.

“Unless you live for death metal, you won't be into |

_ what I’m playing,” said Hoskins. “However, if you re .

into death metal and have an open mind, you're going

‘ to like. it.”

- There’s a a intriguing mixture in Hoskins’ tone. ‘He’ s .
modest, yet supremely confident in- his musical prod:

uct.

“{ think my’ music is better than most and I think |
my band’s better than most,” Hoskins added. .
“The stuff is provocative, accessible,. passionate,

of rock staris?.

‘Hoskins, who visited the region i in 1979 ona youth "Theatre stage Saturday, Feb. 18. See.
exchange, will play shows in Prince Rupert; Kitimat . page B2 for: ‘concert details and how
and Terrace before he heads south to Vancouver Island to get tickets. 7

and the Lower Mainland.

’ sound. he’s proud 'of:to the REM Lee

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GREGORY HOSKINS WEB SITE PHOTO

Around Town

Tale of risqué theatre
full of laughs.

‘THETERRACE and District Arts Council wens |

things up with the last-of its Golden Globe and -
Oscar nominated pictures with the London war-

It’s the story of dame Laura Henderson (Judy
Dench), the newly-widowed eccentric 70-year-old
who buys an abandoned Soho cinema and turns
it into what would become the historic Windmill
Theatre.

‘Knowing nothing. about theatre, she hires the
irascible Vivian van Damm (Bob Hoskins) to run
it‘and re-open its doors as Revudeville. Nothing
seems to bring the vaudeville house to life until
Mrs. Henderson has a flash of inspiration: produce
a nude revue. She sidesteps the censorship laws
by freezing the performers as “tableaux vivants”
in which the showgirls don’t move a muscle, The
theatre becomes a smash hit and a haven for Britt

{. ish soldiers throughout the war as it famously re~
fused to close. |
The film features on-stage drama that spills
‘onto the backstage but the core of the film is the .
tumultuous relationship between owner and i im-
presario.’ Van Damm insists on artistic freedom
but Mrs. Henderson’s constant stream of ideas
means the two are bound to butt heads, and i in-
deed, they do.
The film itself was nominated for a Golden
Globe. for best musical or comedy, while* both °
Dench and Hoskins were nominated for their per-
formances. Dench is‘ also up for best actress at
- next month’s Oscars.
- It plays Wednesday, Feb. 22 at7 p. m. at the. Til-
licum Twin Theatre. Admission i is$8. 0.

presents pair of films

THE TERRACE Amnesty International Action
Circle A80 hosts its monthly film . presentation
Wednesday, Feb. 22 and will screen two movies:
starting at 7 p.m at the Kiva Café. following its
monthly meeting. The group has chosen “violence
against women” as the theme because it is leading
up to March 8, International Women’s Day.

. Trafficking Cinderella is a journey into a ma-
cabre world which most of us prefer to believe
could never exist. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall
in 1989 and the resulting political and economic

.changes, there has been an alarming increase in
forced prostitution and trafficking of women from
eastern Europe to the West and North America.
Trafficking Cinderella features the gut wrenching"

Amnesty group

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testimonies of broken dreams, withered illusions,
rape and humiliation from several eastern Europe-.

. an girls’sold as: prostitutes throughout the world:
_ (Mira Niagolova/Canada/2001/48 min.) _- .
Sacrifice tells the story of how each year r thou- :
sands of young girls are recruited from rural Bur-" .
-mese villages to work in the sex industry i inneigh- ~
bouring Thailand. Held for years in debt bondage .
in illegal ° Thai. brothels, they suffer extreme abuse
-by pimps, clients and the police. The trafficking
of Burmese girls has soared in.recent.years as a
, direct result of political repression in Burma. Hu-’ -
° man rights abuses, war and ethnic discrimination |
have displaced hundreds of thousands of families, °- |
leaving them with no means of livelihood. An of-
-fer of employment in Thailand is a rare chance for ©
many families to escape. extreme’ poverty.
. Sacrifice examines the social,’ cultural, cand |
economic forces’ at work in the trafficking of Bur-.: |
mese girls into prostitution in Thailand. It is the. |
story of the valuation: and sale of human. beings ae
and the efforts of teenage girls to survive a per-
. sonal crisis born of economic and political repres- :
sion. (Ellen Bruno/USA/50 min. )

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"Entertainers sought _

~ for relay for lifers

ONE OF the great things aboutthe Canadian Cancer
Society’s Relay for Life is that participants also.
benefit from live entertainment while supporting
. the cause. Copper Mountain Music Promotion
and Entertainment is seeking performers or bands »
who would like to participate.

This event wili showcase.some of the North-
west’s best musical entertainment as they per- |.
form during the Saturday, May 6 fundraiser at the _
George Little Park bandshell between the hours’:
of 10 a.m, and 10 p.m. Sound system will be pro-
vided. To register, call 615-3727. .

_ Gontinued Paae RB&