Greg George

TheSceneinTO was granted exclusive access to one of the UK’s hottest interior designers, Adrienne Chinn. Born in Newfoundland, this award-winning (Best Wallpaper, International Design & Architecture Awards 2011 and Best New Product for Grille Rug, Blueprint Magazine Design Awards 2011) ex-pat Canadian decided to reverse her father’s boyhood migration and travelled to the UK...
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Ahhh. Une vacation à Paris during the winter months is sheer bliss. No crowds, no line ups; just the sheer joy of living as the Parisians do. Watching as they go about their Christmas and daily shopping, while an ex-pat, student or secretive tourist lives amongst them. The only real tourists in town appear...
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If you are lucky enough to be in New York in November and experience some luxurious, late Indian Summer like conditions, then hop the B train to Brooklyn, exit at Flatbush and enter Prospect Park where you can join the nannies with their strollers, the zealous joggers and cyclists, or pack a late autumn...
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On an unusually chilly, end of October evening last month and in only her second public concert this year, Alannah Myles and her hand-picked band turned the temperature way up and rocked the Glenn Gould Studio at the CBC Broadcast Center inTO for A Black Velvet Benefit for Fife House. Guests were treated to...
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Central to the cultural enrichment of the California community for four decades, Napa Valley’s Grand Dame Margrit Mondavi shares her story and her late husband’s benchmark wines. Fumé Blanc 2008 Pinot Noir Carneros 2008 Chardonnay Reserve 2008 Pinot Noir Reserve 2009 Fume Blanc Reserve 2009 Cabernet-Sauvignon Reserve 2007 Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon 2008 Monday was...
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Hey all you Sceners: I am in New York all this week reporting on everything Big Apple: From the familiar, to the not so, from hip and trendy Chelsea and Brooklyn. Some great shopping and restaurants recommends, and finally a review of the revival of Follies on Broadway. So stay tuned! An almost empty...
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If you were kicking around in the late 80′s, like I was, and you were a fan of High Boot and Good Ole’ Classic Leather and Lace Canadian Rock &Roll (which I wasn’t), then you are probably a die-hard fan of Canadian Icon, Alannah Myles. This GRAMMY and JUNO award winning singer/songwriter has been...
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‘Say Yes to Michigan’, as the State’s Tourism slogan goes, and recently, my partner and I packed the car with beach togs, sunscreen and towels and headed west to the Sarnia/Port Huron Bluewater Bridge crossing: Final destination: Saugatuck, MI. Unlike Southwestern Ontario at this time of year, which Sceners know to be one of...
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  Jesus Christ Superstar, currently playing at the Stratford Festival and now extended to La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego (and if all ‘The Buzz’ is correct) a Broadway run, certainly is creating all ‘The Buzz’ this summer at Stratford. The Webber/Rice musical started off as the famous concept album before its first staging...
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There comes at time close to the end of the first act of Lerner and Lowes’ Camelot, now playing at the Stratford Festival, where ‘for one brief shining moment’ you feel that this overly long and dated musical will actually grab you and take you on a magical journey through the legend of Arthur,...
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