I recently wrote about the grand opening of AMC Yonge & Dundas 24 in the Toronto Life Square. Before it opens on March 28, I can get you in for free. From March 22 until March 25th there are free screenings at the Yonge & Dundas 24 and all you
Ola Brunkert was 62. He was a former session drummer with Swedish pop band Abba.
This is The Pogues with The Dubliners performing "Irish Rover". Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Death Proof: 8 out of 10. I had a helluva lot of fun with Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof. I started watching Grindhouse, which includes Robert Rodriguez' Planet Terror, but after the fantastic phony coming attraction I realized Rodriguez' movie was first on the bill and I was hankering for some
The conclusion of the Santa Claus Parade is always the big Santa float. Naturally, the conclusion of the St. Patrick's Day Parade is the arrival of St. Patrick himself. He rolls by in the back of a pick up truck in some Popemobile phone booth thing and waves. Hastily pasted
Ajax Mike tipped me off that the new Incredible Hulk trailer prominently features Yonge Street during the fight sequences. You can't miss that Sam the Record Man sign.
Stick a fork in this season. It's done. I say we shut down Mats Sundin for the season. We wouldn't want to rush him back from his groin injury. And Nik Antropov, he hurt his knee last night. Let's shut him down as well. And finally, after 24 starts in
Kenny Reardon was 86. He scored 122 points in 341 games with the Montreal Canadiens and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Vegas Geoff alerted me to this Yahoo! blog entry about some more vintage Blue Jay cheese. On the heels of The Blue Jays Rap, I'm starting to wonder if all my 80s and early 90s Blue Jays memories are pure cheese in retrospect. This report for City TV was filed
According to BlogTO, Google's free 411 service is now available here in Toronto. This is a pretty awesome service from Google that beats the crap out of the 75¢ 411 service we all hate to use. Program 1-800-4664-411 into your mobile phone now and you'll thank me later. Here's a
I just got an email from a loyal reader who enjoys "all entries except the ones about sports." She thinks I've had way too many sports-related entries lately and she'd like me to write less about sports and more about "other stuff". Here are the last 40 entries I've posted
When I saw No Country For Old Men recently, one of the coming attractions we saw was the trailer for Passchendaele, a Paul Gross film about the 10th Battalion, CEF in the First World War at the Battle of Passchendaele. I thought the trailer was pretty good and I'm looking
If I recall my days of scripture study, there's a part of the Book of Deuteronomy (or is it the Book of Leviticus?) that references Toronto Maple Leaf fans. The translation, and bear with me as my Hebrew is rusty, is "If a man roots for the Maple Leafs, following
It's that wonderful time of year. Baseball's back. It's a clean slate and hopes are high we'll return to the post season for the first time in 15 years. I can't believe it's been that long. WARNING!!! The Jays song I'm sharing today is awful. It's so bad, it's actually
Go figure, Toronto is merely #26 on a list of the 100 most dangerous cities in Canada. To assemble the rankings of the most dangerous and safest cities, Maclean's magazine used 2006 crime data from the Canadian Centre of Justice Statistics. The magazine then calculated the percentage difference from the
Three years ago today, I wondered aloud if SLS had sold out. On that day, we started selling Smells Like Sour tee-shirts. Three years later, I'm happy to report SLS didn't sell out that day, because in 36 months we've sold exactly zero of those wonderful tees.
My favourite Toronto Blue Jays songs OK Blue JaysAlong Came JoeThe Ballad of Tom HenkeHelp Us MookieJays to the Top
I left my mom's home when I was 21 and moved in with my wife. I've been living with her ever since, and we've added a couple of kids to the mix. I've never lived alone. Occasionally I get short periods of "single guy" time, and that happened this week.
YouTube user WNED17 recently uploaded some fantastic retro-Toronto-centric gems. These clips have brought back a tonne of memories for me, so I'm going to feature them one by one over the next few weeks. I recently posted a laundry list of things I don't get, and on that list I
I was sure we'd get trounced last night in Philly. Shows ya what I know. I took the steam out of this recap last night with Too Little, Too Late. Here's the crux of that entry: it's too little, too late. Current Record Last GamesSeason Leaders32-30-10 72 points Tied for
Our damn Leafs swept Philly. The jerks are doing it again. We're only five points out of the playoffs, but it's too little, too late, dammit! It's too bad, because I've been enjoying this little resurgence. This team is practically likable again, with amazing goaltending and a never-say-die swagger. Even
I forgot to share this when it first went viral over a month ago, but better late than never. This is a wicked stunt at Grand Central Station in New York where hundreds of people freeze at the same time. I'm sharing this because we had better be planning something
J.I. Albrecht was 77. He had front-office stints with the Montreal Alouettes, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders and expansion Shreveport Pirates.
I share an MP3 from my collection every Wednesday. You have seven days to grab this week's MP3. Please right-click your mouse and select "Save Link As..." or "Save target as..." so you can download it to your PC before playing. Corky and the Juice Pigs - REMember In 1994,
