Album: The Road to Jajouka: A Benefit Album (planned release: September 2013) Artists: The Master Musicians of Jajouka, led by Bachir Attar and featuring various musicians including Medeski Martin & Wood, John Zorn, Flea, Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Billy Martin, Marc Ribot, Ornette Coleman, Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead), DJ Logic, Falu, Howard Shore, and the… Read more »
At Home: Calling the Cops If you’ve got concerns about your personal property, you should call a security expert, and if there’s an immediate threat, the police. But you might want to rethink this if the property You’re trying to protect is illegal?as one Ontario woman recently learned. As the Toronto Sun reports, the 46-year-old… Read more »
In the midst of an already insane summer, we will be taking one weekend off to celebrate. On Sunday we’ll gather for Grady’s fourth birthday party. Since I’m pretty sure he can’t read yet, I’ll let you in on the secret of what he’s getting from us. Number one is the Transformers Bots and Robbers… Read more »
Dear Members, You may have recently seen information on the internet speculating about the future of Athabasca University. These reports suggest that the Alberta government may broker a merger between AU and University of Alberta, and that this may result in drastic changes to the services and programs offered to students AU students. We want… Read more »
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If you’ve been on social media at all in the last week, you’ve probably heard about a shocking letter received by the Ontario mom of a teen with autism. Briefly, the letter berated the parents for the child’s existence, suggested he had no place in a decent and ?normal? neighbourhood, and not-so-subtly recommended he be… Read more »
At Home: Shipping Route Sneaking over the border by swimming has happened before, but agents near the Sarnia, Ontario?Michigan border experienced something new when they captured a Canadian scuba diver trying to smuggle marijuana across the water from Canada into the US. As the Sun News Network reports, officials intercepted a ?frogman swimming across the… Read more »
If you had clear skies this past week, you were treated to the stunning sight of a rare blue moon. But there’s more to this rare occurrence than meets the eye?or camera. These aspects of moon lore might have confused some, but they’re certainly entertaining: The Blues Popular understanding is that a blue moon is… Read more »
Album: Magic Malik, TranzDenied (to be released September 12, 2013) ?Primitive people attributed to sound a divine origin. It became surrounded with religious respect, and reserved for the priests, who thereby enriched their rites with a new mystery. Thus was developed the conception of sound as something apart, different from and independent of life. The… Read more »
