DVD: For Your Consideration Release date: February 20, 2007 Director: Christopher Guest. Written by Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy Starring Catherine O’Hara, Ed Begley Jr., Bob Balaban, Michael McKean, Eugene Levy, Harry Shearer, John Michael Higgins, Christopher Guest, Parker Posey, Rachael Harris, Jennifer Coolidge, Chris Moynihan, Fred Willard, Jane Lynch The movie opens with a… Read more »
Both the calendar and the thermometer tell us that winter is fast approaching. The days are shorter, the nights are cooler. The Sears Christmas catalogue has been out for months. The Costco tire sale is on. Mandarin oranges are in the stores. Sloughs and dugouts have a skim coat of frost some mornings. Josh Classen,… Read more »
Release date: 2005 Label: Interscope Tracks: 12 Rating: 8 Social Code is a band from St. Albert, Alberta, and they’re one of the reasons I continue to look into and constantly praise our local music. They’ve taken a bit of punk inspiration, an ability to write enjoyable rock ballads, and turned this into a record… Read more »
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Release date: September 11, 2007 Label: Vice Records Tracks: 13 plus 1 bonus Rating: 7 This band first came to my attention about two weeks ago when I was up late watching MuchMusic’s Punk Show. Some days the program is great and others It’s nothing more than a waste of time, but on this particular… Read more »
Hardly a day goes by without news of a new threat to our health or well-being. It may be the results of a study saying positive thinking doesn’t help cancer patients. Or caffeine is good for you after all. Or not. Protect your identity. Don’t open spam emails. Eat broccoli and blueberries. Avoid cookies, ice… Read more »
The Jonathan Coulton Interview Describe the development of the Thing a Week experiment. I had just left my day job to pursue music full-time, and this seemed as good a way as any to pretend that writing songs was my job. I also wanted to challenge myself a little, push the envelope of what I… Read more »
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An open letter to Joy Romero, Chair of AU Governing Council. Dear Ms. Romero; On behalf of the students of Athabasca University, we are excited and encouraged by what Dr. Frits Pannekoek has called the ?second greatest milestone? in the history of Athabasca University. The approval of $30 million toward AU’s new administrative and research… Read more »
On a recent beautiful fall Saturday afternoon I found myself driving in Edmonton. I was about the third vehicle back stopped at a red light at 137th Avenue and 97th Street heading east. There’s a teeny median separating those of us going straight and those turning north onto 97th Street. Positioned on that small piece… Read more »