A Conservative government: What now?
Last week I wrote an editorial exploring the role of the arts in creating healthy and prosperous countries. With the government of Canada making major shifts across the board last…
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The Political Economy of Professional Wrestling: Capital, Unions and Spandex
Wage Labour on the Fringes For all the attention it received, to my knowledge, no one provided much of a political analysis of Darren Aronofsky’s 2008 award-winning motion picture The…
The streets of Philadelphia
Joy and I just got back from an amazing weekend visit to Philadelphia, and I was blown away by the city. I have been to many cities around the world…
Jazz Festival campaign wins marketing award
Last night in Saskatoon, Tourism Saskatchewan held their annual Awards of Excellence Gala, where the Saskatchewan Jazz Festival was in the running for the Online Marketing Campaign of the Year…
Debating art and ethics in the National Post
I was recently invited to participate in an installment of the National Post’s Culture Club. Described as a “Boy George-free effort to bring the water cooler experience online,” the project…
hold my hand, performance by Montreal artist Jessica McCorrmack
ottawa craigslist ; personals ; missed connections hold my hand (City Hall Art Gallery) Date: 2010-11-30, 11:59AM EST Reply To This Post December, Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 I invite…
Batman and the Birth of Venus
Isabel Samaras is my latest guilty pleasure artist. It hits my spot because I love both pop art and classical art. This Batman and Robin piece works in so many…
Mars at Night
Inhale thick smoke in a pensive positionAnd gaze unabashedly at skies overhead, wonderingAs I always do, without censor, at the originsSome nights my view is clear, others it is foggyAnd…
B(l)ogged down…
I'm with zoom! in that I've been feeling kinda down lately. I've had tons of great ideas for blog posts, but I just haven't been able to put it together.…
Music For A Rainy Sunday
Polmo Polpo's Like Hearts Swelling is perfect for Sunday.It's a cacophonous sound collage from Toronto's Sandro Perri.Admittedly, you'll have to be in the right place to want to hear it.
Local Artists Get AGO Platform
By now, you must have heard of the local food movement. Consider the AGO's showcasing of local artists a kind of local brain food movement.My relationship with the AGO has…
Marketing lies, beauty, and the Maple Leafs
YouTube is chock full of spoof ads, most of them awful. This morning I watched one that was surprisingly well made, if not particularly clever. The ad was a Toronto…