Wanda Waterman is a poet, spoken word artist, blogger, cultural journalist, and digital nomad. She’s been writing regularly for The Voice Magazine since 2004, not long after she began studying psychology at Athabasca. Her poetry has been published in Descant, The Talking Leaves, Chizine, Our Times, The Best of Tigertail, and Pottersfield Portfolio and her articles in Design is Political, Rawckus Magazine, Coastal Life, The New Internationalist, This Magazine, and in her blog, The Mindful Bard. She grew up in Nova Scotia, but after having lived in New Hampshire and North Africa she’s now settled in Montreal.
Film: Monsieur Lazhar (Music Box Films 2012) Writer/Director: Philippe Falardeau (based on the stage play Bashir Lazhar, a one-character play by Évelyne de la Chenelière) Cast: Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron, Danielle Proulx, Brigitte Poupart Genre: Art House/International ?Thinking and talking about death need not be morbid; they may be quite the opposite. Ignorance… Read more »
Thought Beneath Film is a five-piece alternative rock band based in Hamilton, Ontario. The band has recently released its debut EP, Detours, and is now touring Canada’s East Coast. Recently vocalist, lyricist, and guitarist Brent Wirth took the time to talk to Wanda Waterman about Carl Jung, feeding the muse, and managing writer’s block. Read… Read more »
Film: A Separation (Sony Pictures Classics 2011) Director/Producer/Screenwriter: Asghar Farhadi Cast: Leila Hatami, Peyman Moaadi, Shahab Hosseini, Sareh Bayat, and Sarina Farhadi ?Whenever You’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.? William James ?When two people decide to… Read more »
Thought Beneath Film is a five-piece alternative rock band based in Hamilton, Ontario. The band has recently released its debut EP, Detours, and is now touring Canada’s East Coast. Recently vocalist and guitarist Brent Wirth took the time to talk to Wanda Waterman about small towns, musical influences, and the Emily Dickinson poem behind the… Read more »
Album: Luciano Berio, Laborintus II (Ipecac Recordings 2012) Artists: Ictus Ensemble with Mike Patton ?But follow me but see the babies, chattering as they dream but follow me at this point, but see the mud at our backs and the sun and the sun between the trees and the babies asleep dreaming chattering as they… Read more »
Film: Footnote (Sony Pictures Classics 2012) Director: Joseph Cedar Cast: Shlomo Bar?aba, Lior Ashkenazi ?My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.? Spike Milligan ?. . . basically he’s trying to say this man is a sissy as opposed to the virile, strong Roman man with his iron helmet and cleated… Read more »
A Seam of Gold at the Horizon ?I know, and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backward.? William Henry Seward In Part II of this series, I asked whether Tunisians have what it takes to battle uphill against the economic adversity, corruption, and religious extremism that have lingered in the wake of the… Read more »
To Make a Living Song The Carolina Chocolate Drops is an American acoustic band playing in a traditional string band style. The band’s instruments include four and five-string banjo, guitar, jug, harmonica, kazoo, snare drum, bones, quills, fiddle, beatbox, tambourine, mandolin, and cello. They use a mix of both traditional and original arrangements and perform… Read more »
