Aug
15
propeller sounds #3: V-Fest primer
2:41 pm | 2 Comments
My summer festival event this year is close to home: I shelled out the $120 or whatever it was for tickets to both days of the Virgin Festival (Sept. 8 and 9), which promises to be a highly corporatized but nevertheless exciting weekend of music.
In anticipation of V-Fest, I’ve been working on a mix featuring […]
Aug
8
One thought immediately occurred to me when I read this morning that the Tampa Bay Lightning have been unexpectedly sold (subject to league approval) to an ownership group including former NHL coach Don MacLean: maybe now somebody will be able to properly market a money-losing Sun Belt franchise.
Here’s the idea: Begin an advertising blitz in […]
Aug
7
Mariachi Mondays at the Dakota
12:13 am | Leave a Comment
Here’s one of those things I just don’t think I’d see anywhere in Canada other than Toronto. Well, maybe Montreal or Vancouver, but I kind of doubt it. Riding home from Jehan’s tonight, Kristin and I passed three mariachis (as members of such bands are properly called) in full regalia outside the Dakota Tavern on […]
Aug
3
An article in the current issue of Mother Jones magazine, a stalwart of independent media in the United States, has created something of a stir in a rural part of Nova Scotia. The story is a Canadian military doctor’s diary of one month at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan, and in it is a detailed and […]
Aug
2
Tracking Canada’s air quality
12:05 pm | Leave a Comment
There’s no better time than this week to check out This Magazine’s special summer series on air quality in Canada. In the third of six weekly instalments, “North America’s tailpipe,” Jesse McLean looks at how a province like Nova Scotia can bear the brunt of air pollution originating from enormous smokestacks in other parts of […]
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