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Get to know an Edmontonian: Philip Paschke
 Posted 2/8/2010 7:21:00 AM
Welcome to the lucky number thirteen edition of: Get to know an Edmontonian. This is an on-going feature I do on interesting people who live in our city. Get to know an Edmontonian runs every second Monday right here in my blog. Get to know an Edmontonian is a question-and-answer with community members with some serious, and not so serious questions. Without further ado, here's one, of many, Edmontonians to be featured.
Your Name: Philip Paschke, New Media Specialist for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Blog: edmontonsymphony.blogspot.com
Twitter: @edmsymphony
Facebook: facebook.com/edmontonsymphony
YouTube: youtube.com/edmontonsymphony
What’s the best part of your career? I consider going to concerts to be part of my job, and that's definitely the best part for me. But I also feel pretty lucky to get paid to be on Facebook, Twitter, make videos, etc.
What’s the worst part? Funnily enough, the more active I am in representing the ESO ...
Three 2 See: Fallen Princesses, William Shatner, and a 12-year-old Bullfighter
Posted 2/3/2010 10:21:00 AM
Disney movies preached love to us when we watched them in our younger days. They taught young women that if we look really, really pretty and our hair stays immaculate, our prince will come save us. We'll live happily ever after, and love would conquer all. Chick-Lit and Chick-Flicks take the spot of those Disney Princess movies as we age.
For myself, I was always a little bit skeptical about the whole thing. My mother got me two books, which were a compilation of hundreds of fairy tales - many my friends have never heard of like Billy Beg and His Bull or The Colony of Cats. Not all of these stories had happy endings. And not all included Princesses.
Dina Goldstein is a woman after my own heart. Based in Vancouver, she admits to not hearing a lot of the Disney versions of fairy tales while she was a ...
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