I am all about the alt-rom-com this year and Celeste & Jesse Forever is the second great one that came out this summer. I’ve been flipflopping on whether or not I like Rashida Jones for years. My dislike of Karen (The Office) was too strong to be erased even by her being a part of […]
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Good theatre produces reactions; you feel compelled and excited after leaving the theatre. And I was energized after leaving Theatre@First’s opening night of Bent, a harrowing story of the not-so-legendary Pink Triangles. I’ve been disappointed by Theatre@First in the past- most notably their original adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, but even their Equus failed to […]
Dalton Ross and the rest of the folks who do EW’s Inside TV Podcast (which I generally adore) think Guys with Kids is terrible. They went after it really hard and basically came to the conclusion that if it’s not canceled early it’ll be all because NBC’s beloved Jimmy Fallon is the producer. So I wasn’t […]
*Sigh* I really did have my fingers crossed for Go On. I wouldn’t say my hopes were all the way up, since the premise – snarky sportscaster Matthew Perry is forced into group therapy after the death of his wife- sounded tired, but I really was hoping for the best, if only for Perry’s sake. […]
Two weeks after the PQ was elected as Quebec’s minority government- causing concern of renewed interest in nationalist policies- the time could not be more right for a project fusing our country’s strong English playwriting tradition with the electroacoustic music Quebec is renowned for. Montreal-based composer Louis Dufort and Toronto-based writer Tom Walmsley were both […]
It’s been three years since The xx’s debut album came out and the absence of records saw the band touring to the point that one member left. A “Tour Only” EP was released in 2010 but contained some B-sides that had previously come out with singles. Then, this past holiday season they released a demo track, […]
This week in Doctor Who, we take a trip to the Wild West. Or, Doctor Who’s version of it. Open with a spaceship crashing. The survivor of the crash comes face to face with a cyborg gunslinger. The Gunslinger shoots the man. The man asks if he is the last one. The Gunslinger replies, “There’s […]
Today is day 1 of the 2012 NHL Lockout. Has that really sunk in for most NHL fans yet? I know what most people are thinking: here we go again! This year’s lockout is déjà vu for NHL fans who still remember the sting of losing the entire 2003-2004 season. One would hope that the […]