The recent brouhaha over changing lyrics to our national anthem (personally, I like Gail Asper’s suggestion of “in all of us command” over “thou dost”) got me thinking about lyrics. Not just the casually...

While the images of the Vancouver Olympics are no longer being broadcast on “Canada’s Olympic Network” (biggest surprise: TSN and Sportsnet are buddies, and not competitors), one image that I can’t shake is the...

Last year in these very pages, The Deep Dark Woods' Winter Hours was panned — much to my chagrin. And while records get negative reviews all the time, what gave me pause was that,...

Having just returned from Minneapolis where I saw the Vikings trounce a lackluster Giants team, the Twin Cities remain at the top of my mind. While there are some big differences between Minneapolis and...

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 the tightrope of sincerity on Black Wu Jackets, their...

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 commitment to dealing with climate change are fading in...

At the 11th hour, on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, we’re asked to remember — lest we forget — the sacrifice of those who fought and died fighting for ‘freedom and democracy.’...