If I were stuck on a desert island, here are a few things I might bring...
Happy Halloween and treacle for all! Treacle conjures up memories of my childhood in Paris where I went to an international school and was taught The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe by well meaning British English teachers. Treacle and toffee, and especially treacle …
Last week I attended Nintendo’s Wii U Holiday Showcase event and sat down with their Canada spokesman, Matt Ryan, old acquaintance that some of you may know from his involvement with Destiny Productions. In case you don’t know, or have been living under a NES, …
Lee Fields is a true veteran of Motown. Having made his first recording in 1969, he’s been chugging away ever since. After a brief hiatus in the 80s, he returned in the 90s and has not stopped. His current group is Lee Fields and The …
Posted on Oct 25th 2012 3:00PM by Jesse Ship There was much-excitement awhile back amongst fans of fast-rising dance act Azari & Illwhen British paper The Sun announced the foursome would be opening Madonna‘s MDNA world tour. Unfortunately, that wasn’t exactly the case. Madonna had actually fingered Avicii to open for …
Smug, nerdy, and in full I-told-ya-so form, inventor Ray Kurzweil expounded to an audience of hipsters, futurists, and mad scientists at the Danforth Music Hall last Thursday night. Kurzweil talked about the future of artificial intelligence and a few topics from his upcoming book, How To …
BRAINS! BRAINS! BRAAAIIIIIIIINS! The Toronto Zombie Walk 2012 was a drizzly, misty affair with many sfx nerds bemoaning their melting spirit glue and corn syrup blood. But patches of dry gray with bits of sunshine came through later in the aft so the shambling dead …
A little bit of a shameless plug here. No, I’m not working directly with the Sapient, the artist, but I was hired to write the press release for his new album, SLUMP, thanks to GoLightly Media. It’s actually a really tight sounding record, so …
Forza Horizon picks up, in a way, where Forza 4 left off, at least graphically speaking. While previous iterations of the series have been simulator focused, Horizon is actually an arcade-styled game with the high end car collector in mind. You’ll get to race against …
With the release of his new album, ‘Until The Quiet Comes’, Flying Lotus is reaching new highs in his spiritual vehicle, vimana, merkaba, or just plain old cosmic chahttps://shipwrckd.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/woman-traveling-in-france-2023-11-27-05-16-47-utc_Easy-Resize.com_.jpgt, I guess you could say. Inundating our eardrums with a mix of his own tunes and …
Established in 1857, Wiser’s is one of Canada’s oldest whiskeys but the Spiced Up blend is one of the newest kids on the block. I attended a Halloween-themed launch event earlier this week where we got to try the brew out in a number …