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Long-Lost Pages From The Book Of Jonah: A Whale Of A tale

November 23, 2025November 23, 2025 Sunonline/Orillia Humour, Jim Foster

Yet he complaineth not for he knew he wast on thin ice or wouldst hadst he known what ice wast.

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November 21, 2025November 21, 2025 Sunonline/Orillia Arts Orillia, Brassworks, Cellar Singers, Chamber of Commerce, City of Orillia, Creative Nomad Studios, Downtown Orillia, Mariposa Arts, NSA, OCB, OMAH, Opera House, Orillia Concert Association, Orillia wind ensemble, Orillia Youth Centre, OSB, Peter Street Fine Arts, St. Paul's Center

The big announcement the youth center’s director, Kevin Gangloff, had last week (the day after the column ran) is that Serena Ryder and Lydia Persaud have a concert at Creative Nomad Studios December 21.

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Grandma Will Fix It

November 16, 2025November 16, 2025 Sunonline/Orillia Humour, Jim Foster

But enough of my journey into heathenism and on to Johnny Standley’s Grandma’s Lye Soap.

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November 13, 2025November 13, 2025 Sunonline/Orillia Arts Orillia, Cellar Singers, City of Orillia, Creative Nomad Studios, Gordon Lightfoot, Green Haven, Lightfoot Band, Lightfoot Days, Mariposa Arts, North Simcoe Arts, OCB, OMAH, Opera House, Orillia Concert Association, Orillia District Chamber of Commerce, Orillia Youth Centre, OSB, Peter Street Fine Arts, Soldiers' Memorial Hospital Foundation, St. Paul's Center

ShareBy John Swartz What a month this has been so far. Mariposa Arts produced and performed fantastically with Jesus Christ

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Editorial: Summer Theater Kicked To The Curb

November 12, 2025November 12, 2025 Sunonline/Orillia City of Orillia, Mariposa Arts, Opera House

The key thing to understand is art equals creation, not buying. This change in programming turns the City into buyers instead of creators. Audiences will notice.

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Gord Made The Ship Famous, John Tells The Stories Of The People

November 10, 2025November 10, 2025 Sunonline/Orillia Creative Nomad Studios, Gordon Lightfoot, Lightfoot Band, Lightfoot Days, Manticore Books

“I have a chapter in there, The Storm of The Century 1913, it wasn’t. This was truly the storm of the century,” Bacon said.

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Jesus Christ Superstar Is Outstanding

November 9, 2025November 10, 2025 Sunonline/Orillia Mariposa Arts, Opera House

The play runs Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings and there is a Sunday Matinee.

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Flood: The Rest Of The Story

November 9, 2025November 9, 2025 Sunonline/Orillia Humour, Jim Foster

“You want me to work on a boat? You mean like get a job on a cruise ship or something?”

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Things I Never Said Before

November 2, 2025November 2, 2025 Sunonline/Orillia Humour, Jim Foster

I got a big charge out of Bob Carroll, my dentist back in the 70s, he’d stick a lead blanket over my crotch before he took an x-ray of my teeth. Why didn’t dentists do that during my childbearing years?