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posted Wednesday, February 28, 2024
The lack of winter weather has me locked into Spring mode. I’m ready for patio drinks and lighter layers. Spring is a revival time for wardrobe: lighter colours, trendy prints, and fewer layers that give us a chance to shed the heaviness of the winter and find our vibe for the warmer months ahead. Everything […]
posted Monday, February 12, 2024
Trends come and go, but Absolut Vodka and Kahlúa Coffee Liquor are ensuring espresso martinis are a forever thing with a new cocktail kit that’s a reflection of both today’s trends and retro’s renaissance. The Absolut x Kahlúa espresso martini kit encapsulates the extensive and rich history that both Absolut and Kahlúa have with the […]
posted Friday, February 9, 2024
Sly Stone‘s memoir, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), moves from his early career as a radio DJ and record producer through the dizzying heights of the San Francisco music scene in the late 1960s and into the darker, denser life (and music) of 1970s and 1980s Los Angeles. Set on stages and in […]
posted Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Skater Boy is a pop punk debut about queer romance and destroying labels, as a teen risks everything to write his own story. Stonebridge High’s resident bad boy, Wesley “Big Mac” Mackenzie, is failing senior year—thanks to his unchecked anger, rowdy friends, and a tendency to ditch his homework for skateboarding and a secret photography […]
posted Tuesday, January 30, 2024
The Cure for Drowning is not only a brilliant, boundary-pushing love story, but a Canadian historical novel that boldly centres queer and non-binary characters in unprecedented ways.It’s evocative, magical and luminously written. Born Kathleen to an immigrant Irish farming family in southern Ontario, Kit McNair has been a troublesome changeling since, at ten, they fell […]
posted Wednesday, January 24, 2024
We all have our idols and mine is Nicki Minaj. I could pen a PhD level thesis explaining Nicki’s impact on hip-hop and reviving the female rap industry. Her new album, Pink Friday 2, became certified platinum, the fastest album to hit platinum this decade by a black female artist, only behind SZA’s SOS. Charting […]
posted Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Milwaukee is a fun vibrant city with its own unique identity. Just ninety miles north of Chicago, it was settled by Germans, and their influence persists today. Milwaukee is so well run the Mayor of Portland recently visited to get tips on dealing with the homeless. The historic Third Ward and nearby Walkers Point have […]
posted Saturday, January 20, 2024
In 101 Fascinating Canadian Music Facts, author and historian David McPherson shares 100 tales gathered from his more than 25 years working in the music industry. Did you know that Serena Ryder played the quietest concert ever from the ocean floor during low tide at Fundy National Park? Or that “I’ll Never Smile Again,” the hit […]
posted Wednesday, January 17, 2024
In On Community, author Casey Plett explores the need for community to live, but questions what does it look like, and why does it often feel like it’s slipping away? We are all hinged to some definition of a community, be it as simple as where we live, complex as the beliefs we share, or […]
posted Tuesday, January 16, 2024
In She’s a Badass: Women in Rock Shaping Feminism, music journalist Katherine Yeske Taylor interviews twenty significant women in rock, devoting an entire chapter to each one, taking an in-depth look at the incredible talent, determination, and humour they needed to succeed in their careers (and life). Feminism has always been a complex and controversial […]
