The Pearl Company

What Happens When Your Lawyer Dies?!? Tuesday, April 3. 7:00pm. No charge. The City of Hamilton is fertile ground for stories of corruption, influence peddling, and back room dealings. This has been going on for decades seemingly “unnoticed and unreported” by our local media.

The story, “What happens when your lawyer dies?!?” has been meticulously documented and researched; it investigates the failure of the legal profession’s regulatory body in Ontario, the Law Society of Upper Canada, to protect the client rights when the death of a lawyer ‘interrupts’ the process of the law.

This story may never be published in Hamilton as it involves the Spectator itself, prominent legal firms and lawyers of Hamilton, The Law Society of Upper Canada, and now the Halton Regional Police.

The man at the centre of this story is former City Alderman John Gallagher who has been on a 25-year quest to have his good name and reputation restored. The Law Society ignored even the report by former Ontario Ombudsman, noted jurist Clare Lewis Q.C., whom they hired to investigate the Gallagher complaint, and no further action has been taken on the matter.

Check out the facts, join the discussion, view the video that explores the story….

DAWN AND MARRA w MELISSA BEL & KIM KOREN: Saturday, March 31, 8:00pm. $10 at the door. Join us for a relaxing evening of great music with 4 talented, intelligent and creative women of song.  If you are interested in the songwriting process, this is the night for you! It will be an intimate songwriter’s evening focusing on four of Hamilton’s finest, playing and talking about their influences, their processes, and their own music. You can look forward to a mix of genres with Kim Koren (roots, pop), Melissa Bel (pop, rock, blues), and Dawn and Marra (indie-folk).

Dawn and Marra came to our attention winning the 2010 Hamilton Music Awards Rising Star competition. Soon afterwards they released their first album and shared a stage with many renowned acts including Daniel Lanois, Gord Downie, The Reason, Sarah Harmer, and more. At only 19 and 17, these two young ladies’ incredible harmonies and engaging original songs establish them as a must-see act in the indie-folk revival. www.dawnandmarra.com
Melissa Bel’s voice has power and soul. It’s a voice all the more remarkable because it belongs to a petite, fresh-faced 22-year old. Growing up in Burlington, Melissa has received much critical acclaim from her 2010 tour in Germany and at home here in Canada. Her new ‘Distance’ EP is rich, smoky, impassioned and powerful, a rarity in the present day pop world. http://melissa-bel.com
Singer/songwriter Kim Koren (aka Marra’s Mom) draws from her roots to deliver an uncompromising musical mélange from alternative country rock to beautiful ballads, sharing the stage with a diverse and celebrated group of artists that include; Steve Earle, Barney Bentall, Country Joe McDonald. “This Dundas-born country rocker has a voice that could melt butter. She writes with Stevie Nicks’ power. ” – Graham Rockingham http://music.cbc.ca/#/artists/Kim-Koren

The Jazz Connection Big Band: Friday, March 30. Doors at 8:00; jazz at 8:30. $15 /$10 students/artists: The JCBB is a well-established 17-piece jazz ensemble comprised of professional and semi-professional musicians from the Hamilton/Toronto area. They perform only the best modern big band charts from the books of Goodwin, Martin, Menza, Rich, Basie, and many other great contemporary composers. Jazz Connection’s approach is high energy, uncompromising, straight ahead jazz. They combine the highest level of musicianship with great charts in an entertaining show that engages both the jazz enthusiast and the casual listener equally. The incredible acoustics at The Pearl have no trouble accommodating their very cool (and often very hot!) surround-sound big-band music; we are always delighted to have them back and they will return April 27 and then May 23 to 25 for a rousing 3-day recording marathon! Watch for more info re this intriguing experience.  http://www.jazzconnection.ca
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Monday Night Movie! Monday, March 26 Doors at 7:30, movie at 8:00. $10 all/door. Our first Monday Movie will be the Japanese masterwork, Ran (literally “Madness” or “Chaos”), legendary director Akira Kurosawa’s twenty-seventh of thirty films, is not only the summit of his artistry but a universally acclaimed masterpiece. Kurosawa spent ten years meticulously preparing every detail of and scouring the world for funding for his free adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear transposed to sixteenth century feudal Japan. We see, and feel, the “Ran,” the literal chaos of the title, in the destruction of the bonds of duty which once united a son to his father, a brother to his brother, and a samurai to his lord. Kurosawa makes no apologies for taking the time he needs to explore every nuance of his characters and themes. This magisterial film is an aesthetic triumph, with sequences ranging from one of the most overwhelming (and influential) battles ever filmed to intimate scenes which begin with ritualistic formality but then erupt into volcanic passion.  Monday Night Movies will take place on the last Monday of the month and will feature a variety of international masterworks with an international food pairing!
For more information re ‘Ran’, follow the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran_%28film%29 and for the original movie trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbbfDntoRRk Stick around for sushi and conversation afterward!