October 2009
23 posts
Winnipeg Free Press - October 29
Gawker Exclusive: I Helped Richard Heene Plan a Balloon Hoax
IN case you aren’t totally sick of reading about the Balloon Boy and his family, Gawker has obtained information from 25-year-old researcher Robert Thomas on how he helped Falcon’s dad Richard Heene come up with a plan that would help promote a reality show he was developing. “This will be the most significant...
john mayer - kid a
Pip Skid & DJ Kutdown - I Can’t Sleep
...
Winnnipeg Free Press - October 22/09
Bill Cosby Presents The Cosnarati: State of Emergency
WHILE most of us probably thought Bill Cosby was eating pudding pops and counting his cash in retirement, we were wrong. Along with writing a new book, Come On People: On the Path from Victims to Victors, everyone’s favourite dad from the SSRq80s has enlisted Alicia Keys, LL Cool J and Eric Clapton to help him put together Bill Cosby...
Uptown Magazine - October 22/09
Project Song Someone over at National Public Radio must be a fan of the locally created Record of the Week Club. Project Song is a new segment developed by NPR in the U.S. that hopes to take an insider’ s look at the songwriting process. The public broadcaster is asking artists to create a new song in two days based on a word and a photo collage from artist Tom Chambers. Death Cab for...
French Miami - God Damn Best
Winnipeg Free Press - October 15/09
Eric Braeden dishes to E
BARRING a last-minute deal between Sony (who produces the long-running show) and veteran soap actor Eric Braeden, the actor’s days as Victor Newman on CBS’s The Young and the Restless are numbered. Braeden sat down with Entertainment Weekly’s Lynette Rice to talk about how it got to this point, if he can see himself appearing on another soap and how a...
Uptown Magazine - October 15/09
Vice turns 15 It’s hard to believe, but former Montreal-based street-culture magazine Vice is turning 15 years old. Known for its sharp, sarcastic, anything-goes writing style, Vice has never pulled any punches; even in the early days, it was a mix of politically driven pieces and stories you weren’t going to read anywhere else. Over the years, Vice has forayed into music, film, TV,...
Gone Too Far To Air Monday October 12/09
by Brad Oswald - brad.oswald@freepress.mb.ca
AT the time, it was nothing more than an off-the-cuff observation. Later it just seemed creepy.
After a session during last summer’s TV press tour in L.A. featuring DJ AM to promote his series Gone Too Far — I remarked to a colleague, “That’s a guy who seems like he’s carrying a great weight.”
The celebrity...
October 8/09 - Uptown Magazine
Vegan MoFo Most people are familiar with vegetarianism, but veganism is still often misunderstood. Inspired by National Novel Writing Month - in which participants attempt to write a 50,000-word novel in one month - cookbook author/chef Isa Chandra Moskowitz decided to launch the Vegan Month of Food to encourage discussion on plant-based diets and help promote a vegan lifestyle. This year, over...
October 8/09 - Winnipeg Free Press
Music from Entourage
ENTOURAGE just wrapped up for another season, but if you’re still wondering what song was playing during the end credits of the show or searching for the name of that hot track playing in the background as Vinny Chase and his crew hit up that swank Hollywood club, HBO has created a reference guide for every episode going right back to the first season.
Although the...
Japandroids - Boys Are Leaving Town
October 1/09 - Uptown Magazine
Pop! Et Cetera Winnipeggers are no strangers to festivals. Folk lovers congregate at Birds Hill Park every summer, punks have Arson Fest, sound art aficionados have Send + Receive, electronic music addicts have had Brainfest the last couple years, metal heads have the Manitoba Metal Fest, jazz junkies get their yearly fix in the spring and hip hop fans have Freestyle - but indie rockers tend to...
October 1/09 - Winnipeg Free Press
5 Best Twitter Clients
OVER the past year, it has been hard to avoid the buzz surrounding microblogging/social networking tool, Twitter. While most new users stick to using the web interface or access the service on their cell phone, devoted power users have abandoned the site and are using snazzy 3rd party interfaces to read, organize and send messages over Twitter. With so many different...