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Month: November 2007

  • gentrifying parkdale

    A quick stroll through the neighbourhoods of Toronto and it’s not hard to see which ones are getting the big makeovers. Places that were once down-at-heel are now all gussied up with more bells and whistles than a porn star on the Fourth of July. A recent article in the Globe and Mail had a…

  • It’s Bucky Time!!

    Hey kids It’s time to vote in the CBC Radio 3 Bucky Awards! The categories are Song Most Likely to be a Future Classic Best Song to Listen to in the Fetal Position Best Rap Best Yacht Rock Best New Band Name Best Gang Vocals Best Video Sexiest Canadian Musician Musician Most Likely to have…

  • Librivox Turns 1,000

    Ok, not 1,000 years, but there are now 1,000 Free Audio Books available through Librivox. Librivox, for those of you who don’t know, is run entirly by volunteers. They take books in the public domain, have volunteers read them, one chapter at a time – and then publish them with the help of Archive.org. What…

  • Art Countdown!

    View on Canadian Art has just started a new tradition. “Every second Friday” Andrea Carson will introduce the Top 5: ” five Canadian artists whose exceptionally well-made, well-conceived and original work we’ve recently featured, and recommend to art collectors.” Definitely worth checking out even if, like me, your budged necessitates that you only look at…

  • P2P is still good for the music industry

    From Michael Geist, yet another study has confirmed that People who engage in file sharing also buy more music this is in keeping with every other major study done in the world. The two key findings: When assessing the P2P downloading population, there was “a strong positive relationship between P2P file sharing and CD purchasing….

  • Do They Know It’s Halloween?

    Okay, I know Halloween is finished, but I had to post this. Yesterday on Q, Jian Ghomeshi played Do They Know It’s Halloween, a parody of Do They Know It’s Christmas. The song is preformed by the NORTH AMERICAN HALLOWEEN PREVENTION INITIATIVE, featuring artists such as Buck 65, Feist and members of the Arcade Fire….