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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 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 […]
posted Friday, January 12, 2024
In The Form of a Question is an exploration of what it means to ask questions of the world, and of yourself. Its an inspirational and bold memoir from Amy Schneider, the most successful woman ever to compete on Jeopardy! In eighth grade, Amy was voted “Most likely to appear on Jeopardy!” by her classmates. Decades […]
posted Wednesday, January 10, 2024
The Beginning Was the End is the definitive account of Devo’s vibrant early history, from the authors of the first-ever book about the band. The Beginning Was the End features more than eighty never-before-seen images of the band members and their visual history as it tells the unlikely story of a collection of creative misfits who formed a musical kinship, drawing […]
posted Thursday, January 4, 2024
Stowe’s LGBTQ Winter Pride Festival , Winter Rendezvous, celebrates 41 years of providing snow much fun for hundreds of LGBTQ winter enthusiasts. Offering five full days of world-class skiing and boarding at Stowe Mountain Resort in Stowe, Vermont, this fun-filled event also has many other outdoor activities, parties, and entertainment sure to delight avid skiers […]
posted Thursday, January 4, 2024
Live from the Underground A History of College Radio tells the story of how alternative indie bands like R.E.M., U2, Public Enemy, and Nirvana found success as darlings of college radio. It also explains the powerful influence that these stations and their DJs had on musical culture was anything but inevitable. As media deregulation and […]
