February 2012
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Uptown Magazine - February 16th
8 MegaUpload & MegaVideo alternatives With the FBI shutting down extravagant web millionaire Kim Internet’s MegaUpload and MegaVideo empire — seizing and freezing access to one of the biggest file-sharing sites around and one of the most popular sites for TV streaming — users have been scrambling to find other outlets to get their video fix. While there are plenty of options for those...
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Winnipeg Free Press - February 9th
Facebook Still Not Deleting Your Photos
LOVING Facebook’s new Timeline feature? Eager to upload hundreds of pictures to fill in the social story of your life? Wondering if you should delete those photos from your week-long bender in Vegas?
You may want to think twice about what photos you put online, as it appears that Facebook still isn’t as keen to delete photos as users may be....
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Uptown Magazine - February 9th
Cooking with Skrillex Dubstep wunderkind Skrillex is a meme machine. The latest site to pop up using his likeness is Cooking with Skrillex. Considering his animated performances, unique look and legions of Tumblr-loving fans, this won’t be the last Skrillex-inspired site you’ll see. Most artists would kill to have this type of viral presence across the web. Love him or hate him, Skrillex is one...
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Interview with M.I.A.
Here is an interview that I did with M.I.A. three and a half years ago for Uptown Magazine. Seems fitting to repost it.
A portion of this interview was also used as a Quote of the Day on Perez Hilton.
When you have one foot in the underground and one in the mainstream, it can be a difficult battle trying to maintain your identity and still continue to reach out to new audiences. Few musicians...
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Winnipeg Free Press - February 2nd
Foodpairing
IF you’re still trying to understand the subtleties of pairing wine and food and are aspiring to be a dedicated foodie or know-it-all home chef, this new web app is going to come in handy when you get serious about connecting flavours.
While you may have the basics down, Foodpairing is a new way to explore flavour combinations. The Foodpairing tree gives you an interactive...
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Uptown Magazine - February 2nd
Mixmag’s Greatest Dance Act of All Time The web votes have been cast and counted, and Mixmag has recently crowned U.K. breakbeat ravers, The Prodigy, as the greatest dance act of all time, edging out robot house-loving Daft Punk in an apparently close race. Veterans The Chemical Brothers, Faithless and Canada’s Deadmau5 round out the top five. Other artists who made the list include former...
January 2012
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January 26th - Uptown Magazine
Did the Wizards Win Last Night? While Winnipeggers lament about the fact that the Jets are a horrible road team that can’t win back-to-back games if their lives depended on it, it could be way worse. You could be a fan of the Washington Wizards. Formerly known as the Washington Bullets (before the name was changed because it was deemed too violent), the team has been stinking up this shortened...
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January 26th - Winnipeg Free Press
Five Great Alternatives to MegaUpload
THE swift and massive multi-country raid and shutdown of file sharing giant MegaUpload caught a lot of people off guard last week. Everybody knows that digital lockers like MegaUpload were used to get around piracy laws and contained content with questionable copyright. But on the other hand, it was a very effective tool to store, share and send large files...
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CKUW's Annual Fundrive: Feb 10th - Feb 17th
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CKUW is gearing up for our annual Fundrive which kicks off Feb 10th at noon.
Our volunteers are busy preparing special programs, arranging live performances, special donor incentives and more! Our goal this year is $53,000 in pledges and we’ll need your help to get there.
Phase One Radio’s Fundrive show is February 16th from 10pm to midnight.
Support community radio. Phase One:...
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January 19th - Winnipeg Free Press
Payoff.com
Getting a handle on personal finances might have been one of your resolutions at the start of new year. Whether you are trying to save for a specific purpose, get your spending in check, put some money away for retirement or just trying to find out where all your money goes, Payoff.com may be just the type of online financial resource you are looking for. There are numerous financial...
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January 19th - Uptown Magazine
Crashed Ice If you’re crazy enough to think you can compete at Red Bull’s annual Crashed Ice event — a combination of ice hockey, downhill skating and boardercross — in Quebec City on March 17, there will be a local qualifier on Feb. 4 at Canlan Ice Sports at 1871 Ellice Ave. Note that, there are 200 potential slots for men and 20 for women, and that you need to register online by Jan. 26. Spots...
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January 12th - Winnipeg Free Press
Indie Game: The Movie
IF you need a prototype of how modern films are made, there is no better example than the Winnipeg-produced Indie Game: The Movie.It used two successful bids on Kickstarter, a crowd-based funding site used to raise money for anything from innovative products to businesses, and in James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot’s case, a documentary. Kickstarter not only helped...
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January 12th - Uptown Magazine
Things Stephen Harper Does to Seem Human A clever play on the Kim Jong-il Looking at Things Tumblr, Things Stephen Harper Does to Seem Human is a brilliant photo blog that captures the awkward moments of Prime Minister Stephen Harper as he tries to seem like a regular Canadian as opposed to a bland political cyborg that lacks any form of real human emotion and struggles to make even the most...
December 2011
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Winnipeg Free Press Best Albums of 2011
1. Art Department, The Drawing Board
This Toronto duo seem like they came out of nowhere, but Jonny White and Kenny Glasgow had been quietly paying their dues on their own until they got together in the studio, released a couple of monster singles and a stunning debut album that made everyone else take notice. Their dark, stripped-down, vocal heavy tech-house vibe is just what electronic music...
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2011's Top 10 (Uptown Magazine)
Anthony Augustine, Uptown Top 10 albums, in order 1. Art Dept – The Drawing Board 2. ASAP Rocky – LIVELOVEA$AP 3. Explosions in the Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care 4. Fucked Up – David Comes to Life 5. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming 6. J Mascis – Several Shades of Why 7. Cannon Bros. – Firecracker/Cloudglow 8. TIE: The Weeknd – House of Balloons & Thursday 9. Police Teeth –...
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Year in Review: December 29th - Uptown Magazine
Site of the Year: Dear Photograph dearphotograph.com — Dear Photograph pulls at the heart strings in just the right way. Runners up: Grantland.com, Longform.org
Best Tumblr: Feminist Ryan Gosling Feministryangosling.tumblr.com — With a cool Tumblr being created every few minutes it seems, this was a tough category to nail down, but Feminist Ryan Gosling was a big viral sensation in...
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December 29th - Free Press
The 10 Best TED Talks of 2011
IF you think the web is a big waste of time and all the videos on YouTube are of cats doing weird things, kids doing things they shouldn’t and video blogs about stuff you don’t care about, you may want to watch some of the Technology Entertainment and Design (TED) talks from this list. Touching on a wide range of topics, TED talks are usually fun,...
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December 24th - Free Press
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Fabric 61: Mixed by Visionquest (Fabric)
THIS was a breakout year for the four DJs/producers who record and perform under the name Visionquest. Since getting together, Seth Troxler, Ryan Crosson, Lee Curtiss and Shaun Reeves have played a pivotal role in reshaping the sound of house and techno, manoeuvring between trippy, late-night sounds, vocal-driven indie pop and sweaty,...
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Symptom Technologies - 15 Years of Party Rocking -...
Original flyer from Symtom Technologies’ first party. From the archives of Art Podsiadlo.
If you are looking for an example of how Winnipeg’s electronic music scene has grown, changed and adapted over the years, look no further than Symptom Technologies. Founded in 1996 by siblings Heather and Cory Ash (joined later that year by Nathan Zahn), Symptom’s first party was held in the...
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December 22/11 - Uptown Magazine
Resident Advisor Poll: Top DJs of 2011 If DJ Mag’s annual list is a global barometer of the growing popularization and commercialization of electronic dance music, then Resident Advisor’s readers’ poll is a gauge of underground dance music culture. While some may argue that RA’s list is too heavily weighted toward house and techno DJs, it is the most respected annual poll in electronic music....
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Skrillex - Winnipeg Free Press
The Guide to Skrillex
gaw.kr/guide_to_skrillex
Let’s face it. Until he was nominated for five Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist, the chances of you knowing who Skrillex was were pretty slim. Unless you have a teenager obsessed with dubstep who blasts it at home at all hours or you somehow stumbled upon an article online, Skrillex probably sounded like some sort of scouring pad you...
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November 2011
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November 26th - Free Press
A$AP ROCKY
LIVELOVEA$AP (Independent)
Download/stream LIVELOVEA$AP
A$AP Rocky and his crew of Houston-worshipping buddies from Harlem have taken the web by storm this year, smashing the music industry to pieces along the way. Not only are some of them getting major-league money from labels who are desperate for any way out of the abyss, these artists are connected to their fans in ways we...
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November 24th - Free Press
Suitts.me
SUITTS.ME is a recently launched a social shopping site that lets you collect crowdsourced opinions from other users about clothing you are thinking about buying online. It allows you to gather opinions about items you’re browsing for to see if what you are about to buy suits you. An interesting concept that is already gathering steam online, this could quickly take off in...
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November 24th - Uptown
Red Bull Thre3style: Canadian Finals After a fierce battle against 10 of Canada’s best party rockers, Eh! Team DJs’ member Hedspin was crowned the Canadian Red Bull Thre3style champ, edging out defending 2010 winner Drastik and Toronto’s own Mensa, who came in third. DJ Hipnotic represented the 204 but wasn’t able to break into the Top 3. You can judge how the DJs did for yourself — all of the...
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November 17th - Free Press
Worldwide Feast: 55 Great Global Food Blogs
YOU know food blogging is hot when The Simpsons skewers foodies and their love of blogging on a new episode. Food culture on the web is global, with local, regional and national delicacies, interestingingredients, trends, restaurant, chefs and techniques being highlighted on an increasing number of must-read food blogs.
Saveur tracks and writes about...
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November 17th - Uptown Magazine
Occupy Tebow One of the fastest-growing memes of the year has been the Occupy Tebow phenomenon that has taken over the ESPN comments section of a now-famous article on Denver Broncos’ struggling QB and former college star, Tim Tebow. While ESPN originally tried to delete negative comments about the QB, it couldn’t keep up with the onslaught of posts and instead of just turning off the comments,...
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Winnipeg Free Press - November 10th
GTA V
IT’S always a big deal when Rockstar Games announces the latest edition of its wildly popular and highly controversial video-game franchise Grand Theft Auto. Although there is no firm release date yet (an Easter egg in the trailer suggests possibly May 24, 2012), the Internet has been buzzing since the trailer hit the web last week. We’re back to the sunny skies of Los Santos...
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Uptown Magazine - November 10th
Top 100 DJs DJ Mag’s annual Top 100 DJ list was recently revealed. For some, this list is a barometer of what’s happening worldwide; for others, it’s a popularity contest that doesn’t really represent what’s going on in electronic music culture. However you look at it, the past couple years have seen the rebirth of festival culture in North America, the growth in popularity of dubstep, the...
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Winnipeg Free Press - November 3rd
Kevin Smith
DIRECTOR/writer/Twitter addict/comic-book fan/hockey lover Kevin Smith will be in town with his longtime buddy Jason Mewes on Dec. 11 on their Jay and Silent Bob Get Old tour. Along with this live show that has been hitting cities across North America,Smith has a regular podcast with Mewes on The SModcast Network that you can preview.
Smith is a busy guy: along with his show with...
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Uptown Magazine - Old Seed
“I have a lot of respect for Mike Watt,” says Old Seed’s Craig Bjerring over Skype from his new place in Kassel, Germany, referring to The Minutemen founder. “He got it early on and he didn’t change.” Bjerring, 41, also gets it. For the past 20 years he has done things on his own terms. He cut his teeth on endless tours across Canada, sleeping on floors, racking up...
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Uptown Magazine - November 3rd
Five Best Mobile Sports Trackers Now that the Jets are back and have finally won a couple games, you might want to keep track of their games and those of your other favourite teams while you’re out and about. You can always use the web browser on your phone to check the score or troll Twitter to see what people are saying about the game, but there are also a few dedicated mobile sports trackers...
October 2011
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Winnipeg Free Press - October 13th
25 Awesome One-Hit Wonders of the 1990s
THE ’90s are back in a big way. While there is a lot of focus on the 20th anniversary of grunge and all things Seattle, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains weren’t the only thing people were listening to in the ’90s. Paste Magazine takes a look back at 25 Awesome One-Hit Wonders of the 1990s. From Canadian brother and...
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Uptown Magazine - October 13th
Fifty Mission Cap fiftymissioncap.ca — Over the past year, sports writing on the web has been given a shot in the arm. From Sportsfeat, a site that gathers long-form articles, to Bill Simmons’ estimable Grantland, it isn’t just about box scores and the highlights from the game last night. “It’s a strange thing, sports; inherently frivolous, but decidedly important. There always seems to be...
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Winnipeg Free Press - October 6th
The Walking Dead Webisodes
Few shows have done as good a job as AMC’s The Walking Dead as building anticipation of the new season slated to start on Oct. 16. Along with some short teaser trailers released this summer, the network has made plenty of exclusive content available online, capping things off before the second season starts with a series of short webisodes.
Where to Hang Out on...
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Uptown Magazine - October 6th
You Are Listening to Montreal http://youarelistening.to/montreal — You Are Listening to Montreal is part of a web mashup series that pulls ambient tracks from Soundcloud and streams of police scanner activity in cities such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The way things have been going in Winnipeg, the developer might want to add our city to the project. There would be...
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September 2011
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Winnipeg Free Press - September 29th
Google + Now Available Without Invite
IF you are suffering from social-media fatigue, chances are the announcements made last week by Facebook and Google aren’t going to make it easier. Facebook made a splashy announcement about their revamped social-networking service, which will now include an extensive online timeline (the story of your life ), a real-time ticker, a Twitter-like...
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Uptown Magazine - September 29nd
Things Apple Is Worth More Than thingsappleisworthmorethan.tumblr.com — If you have Apple stock, you might want to hold onto it. It seems that Steve Jobs’ stepping down hasn’t stopped Apple’s growing momentum. In fact, the Cupertino, Calif.-based technology giant is now the biggest U.S. company by market cap, finally passing oil barons Exxon. What does that mean? With a market cap of over $350...
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Uptown Magazine - September 22nd
How Can I Watch Nearly Any Sports Game Online? lifehac.kr/watching_sports — People are always looking for live-streaming sporting events on the web. If you want to reduce your cable and satellite bills by getting some of your TV online, will you be able to follow your favourite sports teams? Probably, but how successful you are depends on a few factors. There are plenty of choices out there,...