Going Global
Free time is precious for most people. When faced with a break in a busy schedule, they will often kick back, relax and be lazy…
Arts & Culture
File under : “Guilty Pleasures”
I love Twilight “like a fat kid loves cake,” to quote rap artist 50 Cent. This phrase aptly describes my initial reaction to The Twilight…
Show and sell
“The best art is the most expensive because the market is so smart,” said Tobias Meyer, Sotheby’s head of contemporary art in 2007. True statement?…
Arrival of the fittest
Departures and Arrivals, the opening play of The Black Hole Theatre Company’s 2009-10 season, is one production where you get a lot of play for…
No road for wise men
Director of Cinematography, Javier Aguirresatobe, establishes immense tableaux wide shots in John Hillcoat’s The Road, a film depicting the state of life in a post-apocalyptic…
CD Review : Ultra Mega “Black Wu Jackets”
Certainly an album of lo-fi indie rock covers of the Wu-Tang Clan could be seen as gimmicky. But local act Ultra Mega manages to walk…
CD Review : Tinted Windows “Tinted Windows”
Taylor Hanson is back, and this time he’s sporting a new hairdo and skinny tie. Yes, that Taylor Hanson. The “MMMBop” one. Now, 12 years…
CD Review : Everytime I Die “The New Junk Aesthetic”
If you listen closely to his lyrics, Keith Buckley, the screaming front-man of Every Time I Die, certainly seems to be a proud man. Yes,…
Remembers the Members?
Three years, a member change and a serious drug addiction later, Swollen Members and the Battle Axe Warriors have returned to the hip hop scene…
Essentially a playlist : How can we sleep when are beds are burning?
With world “leaders” pouring tar all over the possibility of a climate treaty in Copenhagen, Denmark as I write this, my hopes for a real…