July 2010
18 posts
Uptown Magazine - July 29th
Sam & Judy The mayoral race is off to a slow, uninteresting start as both high-profile candidates for this year’s civic election have been playing it safe. On the right, Sammy (Goldeyes) Katz has been doing what he does best: not much. On the left, Judy (The Chosen One) Wasylycia-Leis has been busy handing out badges and trying to get the news media to pay attention to her, despite lacking...
Winnipeg Free Press - July 29th
The 5 Biggest Cons for Getting the iPhone 4! And Why You Should Wait.
DESPITE Antennagate and Apple’s recent announcement that it will give out free protective guards to prevent dreaded dropped calls from its newest iPhone model, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company is still going to roll out its latest device in Canada and 16 other countries this Friday.
If you still aren’t...
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Uptown Magazine - Fringe Reviews
B+ Breast Friends Kimmy Zee Venue 6, Tom Hendry Theatre at the MTC Warehouse As you can probably guess from the title, this locally produced variety show deals with women’s love/hate relationship with their breasts. Dealing with body image issues, breast reduction surgery, puberty, mammograms, breast feeding and wrapping up the whole thing with a titillating burlesque performance by...
Uptown Magazine - July 22nd
Home Sweet House It is widely acknowledged that Detroit was the birthplace of techno and that house music emerged from Chicago. Despite the fact that these two cities played a huge role in the development of electronic music, North America is still playing catchup to Europe. This short documentary charts the growth and development of house music in Chicago in the ’80s. Bombers Game Day If...
Winnipeg Free Press - July 22nd
Chatroulette Expands
WHEN Russian teen Andrey Ternovskiy launched Chatroulette last November on a shoe-string budget, nobody really knew how much impact it would have on web culture. Bringing together random strangers via web cam, Chatroulette went against the grain of the social nature of the web and sites like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. Instead of connecting people who already knew...
Winnipeg Free Press - M.I.A
M.I.A - MAYA (Interscope/XL)
On her third release, Sri Lankan-born British-raised MC/producer/designer/visual artist Maya Arulpragasam (M.I.A.) continues down the same fierce path of global resistance she established on her critically acclaimed albums, Arular (2005) and Kala (2007).
Packed with stuttering drums, unrestrained bass, wailing sirens, blippy video game synths and plenty of...
Uptown Magazine - July 15th
The Fabulous Blue Bomber Show Hope was running high after the Bombers knocked off the Hamilton Tigercats in the season opener. Fans were brought back down to Earth after the lowly Toronto Argonauts managed to beat the Blue and Gold last Friday. Despite racking up almost 500 yards in offence, the team couldn’t handle basics such as tackling, blocking, place-kicking and special teams coverage....
Winnipeg Free Press - July 15th
King Spencer
WITH MTV’s docu-soap The Hills wrapping up this past Tuesday, cast members are busy looking for new work. Although he hasn’t be featured as prominently in the final season, Spencer Pratt has been an important part of the show, holding down his spot as one of the most hated villains on TV. Currently separated from his wife Heidi Montag, he is engaging in a war of...
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The international phenomenon of house music owes its existence to the basement clubs of 1980’s Chicago, but many Chicagoans are unaware of their city’s underground legacy. “Home Sweet House” reveals a thriving Chicago house scene hidden in plain sight. From a footworking battle on the South Side to a night out at a legendary North Side club, the...
Winnipeg Free Press - July 8th
100 Greatest Movie Insults
COMPILED by Harry Hanrahan, this 10-minute video includes clips ranging from Glengarry Glen Ross, Full Metal Jacket and Trading Places to Clerks, Gone with the Wind and A Clockwork Orange. As you can guess, it’s probably not safe for work.
Hanrahan also put together The 100 Cheesiest Movie Lines of All Time, which is also worth checking out.
Night Mayor
IF...
Uptown Magazine - July 8th
Down with the GVP! Chances are if you’re vegetarian or vegan, you have had to settle for the dreaded Grilled Vegetable Plate (or the GVP), despite being in a restaurant that should be able to accommodate you (what’s so difficult about pasta, stir-fry or pizza?). While some restaurants will go out of their way to make sure there are a range of options for their customers, some just take the...
Winnipeg Free Press - July 1st
M.I.A.’s Agitprop Pop
MAYA Arulpragasam, known as M.I.A., has never been shy about her politics and when she sat down with New York Times’ writer Lynn Hirschberg it seemed like another interview. Outspoken, confident, eloquent and one of the music industry’s most thought-provoking artists, M.I.A is always controversial.
Along with a brilliant new viral video (which...
Uptown Magazine - July 1st
Tuna’s End If you are a sushi addict, chances are you eat your fair share of tuna. One of the most sought-after and expensive fish in the ocean, the Atlantic bluefin tuna stock has been depleted and is in dangerous territory right now. If Asian and North American consumers keep up the demand for the fish, they will disappear. “Tuna then are both a real thing and a metaphor. Literally they...
June 2010
13 posts
Eminem - Winnipeg Free Press
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Uptown Magazine - June 24th
This Isn’t a Market The local food movement has been gaining momentum over the past few years. People want to connect with the providers of their food. Although Winnipeggers have the amazing St. Norbert Farmers’ Market, Crampton’s and St. Leon’s, and folks are trying to build up a sustainable summer market in Central Park, there isn’t an easy-to-get-to, year-around market like the ones you...
Winnipeg Free Press - June 24th
Lost Revised
AFTER having had a month to digest the finale of ABC’s Lost, do you feel a bit cheated or did it deliver exactly what you expected? If you felt ripped off by the way the flash sideways was wrapped up, you probably aren’t alone. The difference is you maybe complained about it with some friends or wrote a few posts on some Lost message boards. Some people took it a lot...
Drake - Winnipeg Free Press
Drake
Thank Me Later
Universal/Aspire
THE most anticipated hip-hop album of 2010 isn’t Eminem’s Recovery or Kayne West’s Good Ass Job, it’s from 23-year-old former Degrassi: The Next Generation star-turned-MC Aubrey (Drake) Graham.
After catching the attention of the hip hop world through a series of free mix tapes self-released through his website, Drake has been...
WatchWally Backman Gets Ejected And Unloads A Giant Can Of Awesomeness.
Uptown Magazine - June 10th
World Cup streaming online For diehard soccer fans, one of the most frustrating things about the upcoming World Cup in South Africa can be the time difference. If you aren’t planning on skipping out on work or haven’t scheduled your holidays to coincide with the month-long tournament, you’ll be happy to hear the CBC plans to stream all games online. While there will be replays during prime...
Winnipeg Free Press - June 10th
Google’s Pac-Man
IF your productivity was down on May 21, you can probably blame Google. To mark the 30th anniversary of the release of the Pac-Man video game in Japan, the search giant made its logo a playable version of the popular game. According to RescueTime, a self-described “software tool that allows businesses and individuals to understand exactly how they spend their...
BP Irony
Uptown Magazine - June 3rd
The 10 Stadiums of the World Cup With the 19th FIFA World Cup right around the corner, soccer fans (known as football fanatics everywhere else on the planet) are eagerly awaiting one of the biggest and most-watched sporting events in the world. From June 11 until July 11, 32 nations will battle for bragging rights for the next four years. The elimination rounds started in 2007 and involved...
Caribou - Uptown Magazine
Over the past nine years, Dundas, Ont., native Dan Snaith — aka Caribou — has reinvented himself a number of time, but also managed to avoid alienating his growing fanbase. While 2001’s Start Breaking My Heart (released when he was known as Manitoba, before legal problems forced him to change his name to Caribou) was rooted in sample-based, laptop pop and his Polaris Music Prize-winning...
May 2010
17 posts
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Uptown Magazine - May 27th
Reclaiming Privacy If the recent privacy changes on the world’s largest social-networking site have you frustrated or confused, you might want to spend a few minutes running the recently launched Reclaiming Privacy tool. After a simple drag and drop installation process, you can run the free tool and get feedback on how secure six different categories are based on your Facebook privacy...
Winnipeg Free Press - May 27th
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WatchUnanswered Lost Questions
Lost finale Wrapup in Kottke.org
Uptown Magazine - May 20
Banksy in Toronto
In town for a screening of his new documentary, Exit Through the Gift Shop, reclusive street artist Banksy recently left his instantly recognizable mark in Toronto. While some of the artist’s pieces have been already painted over, Torontoist.com has put up a gallery of the socially driven street art that popped up around the Big Smoke.
The Black Dog’s Drifting...
Winnipeg Free Press - May 20th
Your Open Book
STILL haven’t taken the time to figure out Facebook’s confusing privacy controls (50 settings with more than 170 options)? Don’t really care about the recent changes the company has made in how they handle and display your personal data? While the socially driven advantages of the changes to world’s largest social-networking website aren’t...
Banksy in New York
Uptown Magazine - May 13th
Prime Minister Harper promises to enact a Canadian DMCA in six weeks If you haven’t been following the recent developments in the creation of a U.S.-style copyright act by the Canadian government, you may have missed the fact that the Prime Minister’s office has instructed Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore and Industry Minister Tony Clement to finalize the framework and direction of...
Winnipeg Free Press - May 13th
Fist Pumping 4 Love
HE was the brains behind Brody Jenner’s ill-fated Fox reality show The Princes of Malibu, he is the resident bad boy on MTV’s The Hills and now it looks as if Spencer Pratt is going to take on Jersey Shore head-on with his new TV venture, Fist Pumping 4 Love. On April 26, Pratt wrote “If The Hills was on for six seasons, then Jersey Shore will be on...
Banksy in Toronto
More pictures here.
Winnipeg Free Press - May 6th
Conan O’Brien on 60 Minutes
SINCE losing his late-night talk show to Jay Leno in January, Conan O’Brien has grown a beard, set up a Twitter account (quickly amassing over 915,000 followers, while Leno has yet to break 50,000) and launched his Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour. In his first interview since going off the air, the former Simpsons writer sat...
Uptown Magazine - May 6th
Movement & Mutek For discerning electronic music fans, the Memorial Day long weekend (May 29 to 31) is the official kickoff of the summer festival season. Since 2000, Detroit’s Hart Plaza has been home to Movement, one of the world’s premier electronic music festivals. Anchored by Detroit’s long-running connection to all things techno, Movement has emerged as a destination vacation for...
April 2010
10 posts
Jets Away Illustration - Paul Butler
Uptown Magazine - April 22/10
Banksy’s Exit Through The Gift Shop While some skeptics have assumed the documentary about notoriously camera shy street artist Banksy is just his latest prank, that hasn’t stopped curious art lovers from flocking to the early screenings of the film. Capturing cutting-edge artists such as Banksy and Shepard Fairey as they deploy their amazing stencils and large-scale cut-outs, Exit Through...