Annie 2012 with Annie 2017. Annie 2012 with her Warbucks. "Together at last. Together forever."

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Annie

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“It’s called an amphora,” the artist says.

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Revisiting a Website I Created in 1996: Engineering Writing Centre (University of Toronto)

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Freshman writing students present their research projects in a suitably decorous setting. Free popcorn is involved.

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Sorry, Wrong Number

Numerical errors usually occur for one of these five reasons: A journalist mishears a correct number given to them by a source and fails to double-check it. A source unwittingly provides a mistaken piece of information and the journalist fails to verify it. A source deliberately fudges the numbers and the journalist fails to verify…

A tiny bit of rogue news leaked through the ads.

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Last night I dreamed I was a stagehand during a metatheatrical number called “Butts in Seats.”

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The Drowsy Chaperone @setonhilluniversity

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Oh , potatoes and molasses. If you want some, you can ask us.

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Here is the transcript the girl provided, of her pun battle with my former student and Stage Right’s resident lyricist & character actor Greg Kerestan.