we’re always up for a good ghost story, aren’t we? Whether It’s the fictional spirits that visit Scrooge, or the rumours about that creepy old house in town, ghosts have fascinated us for centuries. Now, though, science has shown that ghosts are nothing more than a trick of the mind?which means they don’t really exist…. Read more »
There is nothing more that The Study Dude wants for you than to have an arsenal of writing tools that portend your rise into the bombastic world of classic authors. Well, in these articles, as The Study Dude, I’ll try to give you the study tips you need to help make your learning easier. I’ll… Read more »
Album: Westing Artist: The Grayces Released on October 14th, Westing is The Grayces second full-length album. The Nashville-based grunge psych-rock trio is best known for their powerful vocals, pounding drums, and throbbing bass lines. Compared to bands like Black Sabbath, Nirvana, and Queens of the Stone Age, The Grayces have captured the darker side of… Read more »
When a person isn’t quite feeling up to par but doesn’t present with any handy-dandy recognizable symptoms either, there are two courses of action. One: Chalk up the malaise to getting older, utter some concerned tsk tsks, compare notes with your friends, and then promptly forget about it. Two: Believe that things can always be… Read more »
Steve Bell is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer from Winnipeg, Manitoba. After years of working with other artists, in 1989 he experienced a spiritual awakening, after which he created his own label?Signpost Music?for which he recorded fifteen solo albums. He’s now marking the 25th anniversary of Signpost with a multi-disk recording project, a tour… Read more »
Dear Barb: I have been married for two years. Before we were married my husband was outgoing and friendly with my family and friends. Since we got married he doesn’t want to visit family and when he does join me he sits in the corner and watches TV. People are asking me what’s wrong with… Read more »
Film: Listen Up Philip Director: Alex Ross Perry “The need to feel superior, though common to all neuroses, must be stressed here because of its intrinsic association with detachment. The expressions ?ivory tower? and ?splendid isolation? are evidence that even in common parlance, detachment and superiority are almost invariably linked.” – Karen Horney in Our… Read more »
Film: Eight Animazing Short Stories “Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.” – B.R. Hayden These international animated shorts, winners of the first ever AniMazing Spotlight competition, have some common elements. There’s no dialogue in any of them, for one thing, which makes them watchable in any country,… Read more »
Leah Warshawski is one of the producers and directors of Finding Hillywood, a documentary about the use of film for healing in post-genocide Rwanda (read the Voice review here). Recently she took the time to answer Wanda Waterman’s questions about what inspires her and what we might expect from her in the near future. (You… Read more »
Dear Barb: I am in my early thirties and recently single. My wife and I were married 7 years before things just fell apart and we decided to go our own ways. We both had Herpes 2 therefore it wasn’t a problem. Now that I am dating the situation has changed. I haven’t been intimate… Read more »