In a recent article in The Walrus, Mark Kingwell talks about whether the battle between various creative types and moneyed hanger-ons when it comes to control over the cultural capital of Toronto and the "revitalization" of those environments ( Read more... )

Everyone does best-of lists but in a nod to zigzigger (and because we share several favorites), the following is a list of my favorite media of 2007, in no particular order except as they come to me ( Read more... )

The only way to restore my good humor, partially ruined after an aborted New Year's Eve and an early morning endured for the express purpose of going to work only to find myself leaving an hour later due to lack of business, is to make the perfect cappuccino (accomplished at work) and spend the morning combing over mp3 blogs for their best-of-2007

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This is how the world ends.

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This week I got to address two of my favorite subjects in my weekly column. Check it out.