Mar 26th, 2010
Daily Scroll: March 26, 2010
Today on the Scroll: an American trilogy — the final time doing this in this format, too. Mitt Romney makes ‘The Case For American Greatness’ in Toronto [Digital Journal]: Perhaps grappling with a rapper on an Air Canada flight to Vancouver last month was good for the former Massachusetts governor’s image: 300 people apparently turned out [...]
Mar 25th, 2010
Lawrence Gowan spends his casino winnings on a cartoon
Keeping score of the 1980s Canadian Content comeback trail has supplied recent stories on Martha and the Muffins and the Spoons and Platinum Blonde, why not Lawrence Gowan? But, for the past decade, his gig has taken him to all the casinos and state fairs and cruise ships of America, because of a decade-ago recruitment in [...]
Mar 25th, 2010
‘Hot Tub Time Machine’: a case study that needs Naomi Klein
Last time John Cusack passed through town to hawk a film he produced, it was War, Inc., kind of a shambling satire of the George W. Bush glory days of “disaster capitalism” — complete with Marisa Tomei playing a Naomi Klein truth-seeking journalist type. While smart enough to salvage it from straight-to-video obscurity by promoting [...]
Mar 25th, 2010
Daily Scroll: March 25, 2010
Today on the Scroll: razzing Atom Egoyan; financing Fucked Up; running Rob Ford. Chloe Turns From Quiet Family Drama To Loudly Awful Erotic Thriller [The Playlist]: Looks like Atom Egoyan has finally made one of those movies that is more enjoyable to read about than it is to watch — here, its storyline inspires comparisons to [...]
Mar 24th, 2010
Ann Coulter finds Canada a safe space for her comeback tour
Not since Bill Clinton’s rapping detractor Sister Souljah was scared away from York University in November 1992 — after the so-called Heritage Front worked the phones to threaten trouble in the days before call display — has a speaker booked for an institute of higher learning earned so much attention for not showing up. Ann [...]
Mar 24th, 2010
Daily Scroll: March 24, 2010
Today on the Scroll: deep inside the Gardens; unsanitized Pride; meeting Demand. Graduating in Maple Leaf Gardens [The Eyeopener]: Not much of a story, about how Ryerson University convocation might move to the new hockey area being rigorously renovated, but the accompanying photo gallery of the makeover is worth a few clicks — including issues of [...]
Mar 23rd, 2010
Ann Coulter’s worst enemies are the most eager to see her
“In reference to what you said to that Muslim girl up there,” asked one of two audience questioners of Ann Coulter at the University of Western Ontario who prefaced their question by evoking Voltaire. “I guess my question would be: why did you have to be such a bitch about it?” A political science student [...]
Mar 23rd, 2010
Daily Scroll: March 23, 2010
Today on the Scroll: saying no to Giorgio; unloading Gothamist; dealing Death Row. Band drops Giorgio Mammoliti gig [Toronto Star]: “I have no comment. Thanks for the call, anyway,” the mayoral candidate says in response to two of the three bands announced for his Rock Your Vote campaign concert, March 31 at the Tattoo Rock Parlour, [...]
Mar 22nd, 2010
Tor-Buff-Chester may not be a figment of Florida’s imagination
Richard Florida will hit the promo trail for his new book The Great Reset next month armed with statistics that vindicate everything he was on about regarding this here mega-region he defined for his previous work, Who’s Your City? The geographical triangle he audaciously branded Tor-Buff-Chester incorporates two of the four American cities calculated by [...]
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