Entertainment
Jun 16th, 2020 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Entertainment
CW EDITORS : The summer is in sight. We have just a few quick things to say, before settling down to a more rigorous holiday schedule of (more) regular (more brief) reporting in these fascinating and intermittently near-overwhelming times. (That at least is the plan.) To start with, while diverse protests for equality and freedom […]
Tags: Abacus Data, Brad Bannon, CERB in Canada, Charlie Parker and Choctaw nation, Cherokee, Eric Grenier, Jack Kerouac, Justin Trudeau Liberals, Ko Ko, OECD outlook 2020, Philippe J. Fournier, Ray Noble, Stanley Crouch, Trail of Tears, white supremacy, Yves-François Blanchet Posted in Entertainment |
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Mar 14th, 2019 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: Entertainment
When relief is needed from Canada’s intermittent bouts of feeling that, to stay relevant in the global village, we must do a bad job of imitating political craziness elsewhere, the editors on this site turn to me. Or so it all too often seems, waiting for the eccentric winter of 2019 to end. Lately I […]
Tags: Anne Carson, current political madness in Canada, Ella Haselswerdt, Emily Wilson, Sappho, The Folio Society Posted in Entertainment |
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Jan 4th, 2019 |
By Citizen X |
Category: Entertainment
It may well be that 2019 proves a difficult year on any number of fronts. But I was lucky enough to spend its first Thursday evening at one of the “top 21 new bars in Toronto” (blue bird or The Bluebird, 2072 Dundas St W, at Howard Park). I was listening to an excellent jazz […]
Tags: Bluebird bar Toronto, Chris Banks, Chris Gale, Chris Wallace, jazz as persecuted chamber music, Jazz in Toronto, music of democracy, Three Chris(s)es Posted in Entertainment |
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Aug 24th, 2018 |
By Randall White |
Category: Entertainment
I have no deep familiarity with the writing of V.S. Naipaul, who “died at his home in London” Saturday, August 11, 2018, just a few days short of his 86th birthday. But he is at least one of only a few great literary talents I for a while found fascinating after my mid-30s. I feel […]
Tags: Anthony Powell, Antonia Fraser and V.S. Naipaul, Barack Obama and V.S. Naipaul, BJP and V.S. Naipaul, Christopher Hitchens on Naipaul, death of V.S.Naipaul, Donald Trump and V.S. Naipaul, Ian Buruma on V.S. Naipaul, Margaret Murray, Nadira Alvi, Naipaul in Canada, Patricia Hale, Patrick French bio of Naipaul, Rakesh Bedi, V.S. Naipaul on Dick Cavett show Posted in Entertainment |
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Jan 3rd, 2018 |
By Dominic Berry |
Category: Entertainment
[UPDATED JANUARY 10]. What are some options for dropping by the Rex Jazz & Blues bar in Toronto in the first month of this perhaps fateful year 2018? Which of the scheduled groups would you most like to hear? Those asking these poignant questions also promised that if we did go to any of these […]
Tags: Bill Todd, Chelsea McBride, Jazz in Toronto, Kelly Jefferson, Mike Malone, Mike Murley, Pat LaBarbera, Patrick Smith, Rex Jazz & Blues, Socialist Night School, Vincent Herring, Zach Smith Posted in Entertainment |
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Jul 15th, 2017 |
By Dominic Berry |
Category: Entertainment
At last we have summer in the city 2017 up here on the northwest shore of the most easterly great lake (well, sort of …). Back from a short communion with early July mosquitoes further north, I somehow bumped into a YouTube clip called “Paul Desmond & Gerry Mulligan — Stardust.” As happens in the […]
Tags: Birth of the Cool, Charlie Parker, cool jazz, Don Bays, dying too young, Franca Rota Mulligan, Gerry Mulligan, Graham Nash, Hugh Garner, Jacqui Dankworth, Johnny Warrington, Night Lights, Our House, Rod Stewart, Sanford Josephson Posted in Entertainment |
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Jul 15th, 2016 |
By Citizen X |
Category: Entertainment
[CW EDITORS NOTE : Nos cœurs et les esprits vont vers les gens du premier pays de mère européenne du Canada, à la suite de l’attaque terroriste épouvantable à Nice hier — un jour que tous ceux qui aiment la liberté et la démocratie dans le monde d’aujourd’hui célèbrent, épaule contre épaule avec le peuple […]
Tags: Allison Au, bebop jazz and rock n' roll, Charlie Parker legacy, jazz popular again, new pop music today, Tara Kannangara Posted in Entertainment |
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Mar 12th, 2015 |
By Randall White |
Category: Entertainment
According to Paul Rimstead (I think), Bud Grant, the old Winnipeg Blue Bombers coach from the USA, used to say that “Canadians should be more like Texans.” Today it might be said that Stephen Harper from Alberta has now realized this dream. And whether you approve or not is the main ballot question in this […]
Tags: Aubrey Drake Graham, Canadian federal election 2015, Canadians and Texans, Drake keys to Toronto, Naheed Nenshi, Stephen Harper, Toronto, We The North Posted in Entertainment |
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Aug 11th, 2013 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: Entertainment
TORONTO, ONTARIO STREETCAR SUBURBS, AUGUST 11, 2013. When I bought the Summer Issue of the New York Review of Books at my local magazine store several days ago, it came wrapped in a plastic bag, with a red and white seal on the outside saying “FREE 1963 premier issue reprint!.” Technically, the summer of 2013 […]
Tags: American intellectual history, Barbara Epstein, Central Park West, New York Review of Books, Robert Silvers, Toronto and New York Posted in Entertainment |
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Jul 11th, 2013 |
By Citizen X |
Category: Entertainment
Our Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper is supposed to be making a big cabinet shuffle this week, but I couldn’t care less. He is the only important person in his cabinet. And how many times can he shuffle himself? Anyway, it has been hot and humid in the summer in the city. We’ve had unexpected […]
Tags: George Clooney and Teri Hatcher, Harper cabinet shuffle, Lois & Clark, Teri Hatcher and daughter Emerson Posted in Entertainment |
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