Torontoist (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
Urban Planner is Torontoist's guide to what's on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you'd like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you've got any—to events@torontoist.com . Gordon Lightfoot performs with Gord Downie tonight at Toronto Centre for the Arts. Photo courtesy of Liberty Ink. MUSIC...
Free Advice (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
When I'm doing the household budget, I put on the Neil Diamond Channel from Pandora in the background. (I used to listen to the Daily Show, but it was too distracting. My forecasts ended up looking like a CBO product .) But the Neil Diamond Channel features classic rock stuff that isn't too hard. It's not just Neil Diamond, but also such favorites as the Monkees' "Daydream Believer" and Gordon...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
An empty house, a broken marriage and a summer afternoon served as the creative spark for Gordon Lightfoot as he penned what would become one of his most iconic tunes.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
An empty house, a broken marriage and a summer afternoon served as the creative spark for Gordon Lightfoot as he penned what would become one of his most iconic tunes.
The Panic Manual (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
Toronto – So theres a charity single for Haiti. Lets recall previous charity singles. I find the videos to be pretty funny, lets take a look. Do They Know It’s Christmas Queen, Phil Collins, Duran Duran, Bono (of course), Paul Weller, George Michaels, Sting, David Bowie, Boy George, Paul McCartney, Kool & The Gang The one that started [...] Related posts: Friday Night Dance Party –...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 01/28/2010
Sure, David Letterman might give you a Top 10 list, but in tribute to my rock and roll heroes in Spinal Tap -- nominated this...
Issa's Untidy Hut (Free subscription) | 01/24/2010
John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service Trimmer, non-ugly version This week's Issa's Sunday Service selection is from one of my favorite bands from the 60's, for which I took a lot of riding from my friends: Quicksilver Messenger Service . The song is the opening cut of their debut album and was written by musician/actor Hamilton Camp . It's another LitRock song that takes its storyline from...
Cover Lay Down (Free subscription) | 01/23/2010
Exploring the boundaries of folk is a challenge these days, not hardly because the word “folk” is so often abused by a growing bevy of slash-using promotors and artists trying to lay claim to the term and, by proxy, to the authenticity of its community and heritage - even as they offer up music which [...]
Mary Richmond Design (Free subscription) | 01/23/2010
Do you remember the old Gordon Lightfoot song, "Saturday Clothes"? I have always loved that song and today it is sashaying through my head as I go about cleaning up after having the kids here. There's a reason mommies are...
Irons in the Fire (Free subscription) | 01/23/2010
Two discs of Gordon Lightfoot are missing
Malcolm Redfellow revivus (Free subscription) | 01/22/2010
Big bird For Gordon Lightfoot, all the way back to 1964, "big" was a 707: The current Economist update reminds us that the 707's bigger, better successor, the 747 Jumbo, is itself now forty years old. Malcolm recalls his first transAtlantic trip (on an aging, and ratty, Lockheed) and how the 747 experience was itself an up-grade. Yet, as that Economist piece, reprinted from Jan 24th 1970...
Going2theshow.com (Free subscription) | 01/13/2010
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Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 01/11/2010
I was listening to Frank Sinatra singing "My Way" and when the line of "Regrets, I've had a few" came up, I thought, "Well, I've certainly had more than a few regrets. In fact, I've got several volumes of them." But old Frank's isn't the only pop song that has a line or two or advice that doesn't mesh with experience or logic or which pushes a hot button. The "Nothing...
CaseyMOORE (Free subscription) | 01/10/2010
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When the skies of November turn gloomy. With a load of iron ore - 26,000 tons more Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed When the gales of November came early The ship was the pride of the American side Coming back from...
The Other McCain (Free subscription) | 12/23/2009
Or perhaps Rorshach test would be the more accurate term. Pro-Palin blogger Joseph Sheppard argues that Sarah Palin's conservative admirers should, as a general policy, ignore anti-Palin bloggers. Such a policy is wise where it is possible, and preferable to eternal flame-wars. And I say this not merely about the pro-Palin/anti-Palin feud, but as a general principle: If something irritates you, try...
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