Cookbook author Donna Hay stopped by C Restaurant, where chef Robert Clark whipped up some smoked salmon chips and sea urchin panna cotta. photo Tim Pawsey

Cookbook world abuzz over Australian Hay
I confess. My postie hates me. It's about the endless parade of flat cardboard packages left at the door-sometimes as many as two or three a week.

Kudos and Kvetches
We can all agree that life has pretty much returned to normal since the stomach-churning events of Sept. 11.

Sosa remains committed to song
Here's the scene: I'm in a beautiful house on Vancouver's West Side interviewing one of Latin America's greatest and most adored singers by telephone-Argentina's Mercedes Sosa.

Tremblay's dated Impromptu still satisfies
Actor Marilyn Norry was so hot on opening night, it wouldn't have been surprising if her frothy golden hair had burst into flames.

Play's political focus fades with time
When Quebec playwright Michel Tremblay wrote his acclaimed play Hosanna in the early 1970s, la belle province was just starting to recover from the aftermath of the FLQ crisis, during which British trade commissioner James Cross and Quebec labour minister Pierre Laporte were kidnapped.

7 days ahead
If you missed them the last time they were in town, don't despair-Dean Gilmour and Michele Smith are back with their critically acclaimed and award-winning production of Chekhov's Shorts, at the Firehall Arts Centre until March 30.