Wanda Waterman
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.
First came Julian Assange. An interesting story, but meh. At first, he came across as a heroic knight errant galloping to the aid of the transparency essential to healthy democracies, but, according to those who worked with him, he was just as cover-uppish as the next megalomaniac. Worse, his exposés may have rendered the world… Read more »
Bourgeois Mystics are a crew of eccentric art rockers generating a host of sounds that will delight and amaze you ‘til the cows come home. An abundance of weirdness belies their strong work ethic, discipline, and focus. The video for their cover of the Bollywood cult classic “Jaan Pehechan Ho” is a case in point. … Read more »
The Split Seconds is a punk/rockabilly band that formed in Washington, DC, in 2015. The band is made up of frontman Drew Champion, drummer Sean Peterson, bassist Stephen Parsons, and guitarist Alex Massi. The grittily retro video for “Where Have All the Good Men Gone,” a track from their recently (June 8) released second album… Read more »
I would have discovered Drooble sooner or later, via social media or word-of-mouth from musician friends. I had to; Drooble was exactly the kind of thing we all needed—a free means of collaborating musically with anyone, anywhere, at any time. After writing a song and doing a bare-bones recording of it I can post it… Read more »