ASTRONOMY A LA CARTE (NIGHT SESSION) ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26TH BIG BANG AND COSMOLOGY CANCELLED! Well, dang it all to heck! Tomorrow night we had the grandest aspirations to venture back to the very beginning of the Universe and we wanted to take YOU with us.....because, well, you are a wonderful traveling companion and space-time journeys aren't nearly as exhilarating in your absence. Alas, the local weather forecasters (broadcasting from their undisclosed locations in Acapulco) have predicted 8 - 12" of snow for Monday night into Tuesday. This snow will provide a thick layer of meringue-textured frosting onto the glistening ice cakes now forming along the asphalt. (We're currently enjoying a deluge of freezing rain: typical autumn weather....in Manitoba.) Such conditions work wonders on the street's friction coefficients (i.e. makes things really slippery.) So, because you are vitally important and we want you to live to at least 113, we've decided to cancel Monday night's "Astronomy a la Carte." The disappointment is double for us because we just decorated our gallery with new lighting effects and we want the whole blessed world to admire our handy work! (Yes, we know "admire" might be a bit overly generous.) Then again, we'll have the gallery decked out and delightful until early January, providing you with ample opportunity to descend into our toasty underworld to celebrate the holidays with whatever pocket of survivors remains by mid winter. Weather permitting (pauses for heaving sobs), we will see you for the next Astronomy a la Carte on December 3rd at 7:00 p.m.