Canadian marks milestone of the popular One-Man Star Wars Trilogy
Canadian marks milestone of the popular One-Man Star Wars Trilogy
Published Friday October 14th, 2011
By MIKE DEVLIN
Postmedia News
Charles Ross is feeling the pressure as he nears a major milestone in his career.
Ross is known for his inspired masterwork, One-Man Star Wars Trilogy, which the Victoria resident first performed during the 2002 Toronto Fringe Festival. Thousands of performances later, Ross ranks among the most popular solo performers in the world.
Next year marks the 10th anniversary of OMSWT, an hour-long show in which Ross alone plays the characters from the franchise’s first three films. There isn’t much the 37-year-old Prince George native […]
‘Star Wars-like’ planet discovered
Published Friday September 16th, 2011
Postmedia news
An astronomical discovery that would make Luke Skywalker homesick is making waves this week – a faraway planet with two suns.
Photo: Postmedia
This artist’s rendition is of Kepler-16b, the first planet known to definitively orbit two stars. The planet, in the foreground, was discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission.
A team of experts used the NASA Kepler space telescope to discover the planet, which orbits around two stars – similar to Tatooine, the fictional home of Skywalker in the Star Wars films.
In this case, however, the discovery doesn’t get the Hollywood treatment […]
Ok I think I’ve recovered…
WOW what an event that was. Check out our facebook site for the pics that are pouring in. As soon as things settle down here at work, I’ll get them posted here for your perusing pleasure.