Friday, October 31Wiccan Halloween Party at The Black Swan featuring Themis Wicca RockFacebook Event Page Mysterion’s Haunted Halloween BirthdayFacebook Event Page 24 Hours at the Centre Of GravityFacebook Event Page HALLOWEEN RETRO BASH – 08Facebook Event Page Skin Tight Outta Site and Mysterion Present- Trick or Strip!!!Facebook Event Page Halloween at the Black SwanFacebook Event…
Thoughts on a Movie Theatre Close to Home
I originally wrote this up as a letter to the editor – and the responsible reporter – on the subject of some changes in the works for movie theatres here in my neighbourhood of Orleans. I would strongly suggest that you read that article, linked in the first paragraph… After reading the front-page article of…
Other Voices: An Evening of Latino Writing and Music
Thursday October 30th, 2008 @ 6:30 pmThe Trane Studio, 964 Bathurst St. Join Tightrope Books for an exciting evening celebrating Latin music, poetry and performance. Don’t miss the best and brightest Latino writing and music has to offer including a bilingual translation of renowned Serbia Poet Goran Simic’s work featuring Veronica Garza Flores, a reading…
Breaking Links: Oct. 23, 2008
36 Hours until I move so not much time for blogging, but a few headlines for you all. First I should mention that I run alot of groups on facebook. Check them out and see if there are any of interest that you don’t know about at http://www.publicbroadcasting.ca/justin/groups.html Now, check these out. The declining looney…
The Best Canadian Poetry 2008
The Best Canadian Poetry 2008Tuesday, November 11 2008, 7 pm Revival, 783 College Street West (at Shaw) Toronto, Ontario From a long list of one hundred poems drawn from Canadian literary journals and magazines, this year’s guest editor, award winning poet Stephanie Bolster, has chosen fifty of the best Canadian poems published in 2007. With…
$1000 Solution for the Left?
Yesterday while listening to CBC’s the Point they were discussing the fortunes of ‘the Left’ in Canada. Commentator Michael Hlinka suggested that the problem the left is having is that traditionally Canadians like things that apply to everyone – Universal programs that are for everyone (such as health care). He pointed out that recently leftish…
Elliott Brood in Session
Elliott Brood is on tour in Europe and the US right now. They’ll be back in Ontario and playing some dates in Mid-November though (a list of dates is below). In the mean time you can check them out on CBC Radio 3 Sessions: Toronto’s gritty folk trio, Elliott Brood, moves from recording their foot…
Poll: Time to Unite the Left?
As regular readers of this blog will know I have been pursuing the idea of an Unparty. But, coming out of the last miserable election there are growing calls to Unite the Left. So, am I thinking along the wrong lines? Should a broad ‘Unite the Left’ movement be pushing at the range of political…
Bookninja Finalists
Bookninja is having a contest. Because the publishing business is hurting and publishers and authors are under increasing pressure to dumb down their content for a public that doesn’t read anymore (and in an increasing number of cases can’t read) Bookninja urged readers to redesign book covers to help booksellers move more product. Entries include…
Weakerthans Take Home 3 WCMAs
Congratulations to Winnipegs Weakerthans who took home awards for outstanding independent album, songwriters of the year and video of the year at this year’s Western Canadian Music Awards! It’s about time the Weakerthans got some recognition. John K. Sampson is, arguably, the best lyricist in Canada. I imagine that if he, and wife, Cristine Fellows…