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Month: November 2007

  • RVT: Fido Trailer

    Fido the story of a boy and his zombie is now out on DVD, because it is a Canadian film you may have to buy a copy if you want to see it.

  • Breaking LInks: Saturday, November 24

    Australia has elected a new PM who promises to move the country in a different direction. “Labor Party head Kevin Rudd’s pledges on global warming and Iraq move Australia sharply away from policies that had made Mr. Howard one of U.S. President George W. Bush’s staunchest allies.” This means that it will probably be Canada…

  • RVT: Arcade Fire and U2 cover Joy Division

    Here’s 3 minutes and 10 seconds of music education for you. The Arcade Fire on stage with U2 in Montreal doing a cover of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart”

  • Breaking Links: Friday, November 23

    Via Hugh McGuire: Some of John Udell’s thoughts on cities and the creative class “It was fascinating to see how these cities are now thinking explicitly about competing — in terms of their housing, transportation, safety, culture, and IT enablement — to attract the creative class. Success produces a compound benefit, because the creative class…

  • Radiohead And You

    Radiohead, aside from being an always evolving band musically and now venturing into the business aspects of the industry, have helped bring the seldom used pay what you can method for online sales up for debate yet again. And it looks like their take on it went rather swimmingly… Here is the link to the…

  • how it works

    Humans love stories -the telling, the sharing, the hearing. We love a ripping good yarn, a big cry, a good laugh, the drama of the rising action, and the denoument of the resolution. Stories are what bind us, connect us, and sometimes, heal us. Daniel McIvor’s latest play How It Works, now on at the…

  • RVT: You Make Me Tall by Gentleman Reg

    Gentleman Reg: Just back from Europe where he opened for the Stars and Broken Social Scene has photos from the tour.. (Just so you know he was one of last months guests at last months Eyes on Toronto. Here is a video for You Make Me Tall by Victoria Cheong

  • Breaking Links: Thursday, November 22

    Freaking is the new ‘can I buy you a drink?’ – from the Globe and Mail “…a growing body of research has found that sexually explicit styles of dancing do not lead to casual sex. To those who study human sexuality, modern dance club culture is actually more indicative of an evolution in courtship.” Another…

  • Eyes on Toronto Returns Monday

    Just a reminder to those of you fortunate enough to be in Toronto. Eyes on Toronto will be back at the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom this Monday with special guests Bob Wiseman , Actor Joe Dinicol and Artists Michael Toke and Jessica Rose. I made it to last months show and it is better, funnier and…

  • Richard Stursberg: God of the CBC

    I am far from alone in my past critisizm of some of Richard Stursbergs decisions as the CBC’s VP for English Television. However, today’s announcement that the Board of Directors has approved ““the formal integration of CBC Radio and CBC Television, which is effective immediately. The integrated services, including CBC.ca, will be led by Richard…