Sean Rowe travels under the radar of many a music aficionado. This is a damn shame. Playing songs from an early age, Rowe cut his musical teeth playing bass in… Read the rest of the article: Weekend Tunes: Sean Rowe – Old Black Dodge

Eric Abramovitz is a gifted musician, who can currently be found fulfilling the role of associate principal/E flat clarinetist at the Toronto Symphony: a position that thousands of musicians around… Read the rest of the article: Gifted clarinetist's prestigious scholarship sabotaged by ex-girlfriend

I often live in places where the only internet connectivity I have comes from tethering to my smartphone (just like I'm doing right now). So, online multiplayer games don't hold… Read the rest of the article: Gaming: Cyberpunk 2077 looks amazing

Look, we’re not all maple syrup lollipops and free healthcare up here. According to the CBC, a naturalized Canadian citizen was held against his will, without charge, for 10 months… Read the rest of the article: Canadian border authorities hold citizen without charge for eight months

As an insomniac, I take my gaming seriously. When I get to a point in a cycle of sleeplessness where I’m too tired to work or keep track of where… Read the rest of the article: Thoughts on the Nintendo Switch from a Gameboy aficionado

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Tent cities for migrant children separated from their parents at the border? Sure, why not. According to USA Today, the Department of Health and Human Services will be paying a… Read the rest of the article: Trump Administration moving forward on tent cities for kids

This past weekend, a woefully overloaded rescue ship operated by SOS Méditerranée and Médecins Sans Frontières made its way across the Mediterranean Sea from Africa to Europe, looking for a… Read the rest of the article: Italy gives boot to 629 desperate migrants

Spain's got a stiffy for football, or soccer, if you must. When a football match is on, just about everyone in the country loses their minds. TVs are gathered round,… Read the rest of the article: Spanish football app turns users into unwitting surveillance operatives

It's been a year since the Mueller investigation began and the Trump administration and its goons have been working harder to derail it than they have on pretty much anything… Read the rest of the article: John Oliver updates us on the current state of the Mueller Investigation

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I’ve always felt the urge to leave. Any place. No matter how beautiful. I want to go. When I was 18 and finished with high school, I attended my graduation… Read the rest of the article: I owe Anthony Bourdain so much

I was recently asked by USA Today's technology site, Reviewed.com, to sort out a feature on the best rechargeable batteries. I called in a ton of the things, in a… Read the rest of the article: I'm a big fan of this inexpensive little fan

My nation, Canada, is a land of endless bounty. Yesterday, it provided us with a feral peacock infestation. Today? A case of pinkeye allegedly caused by poo raining down from… Read the rest of the article: Passing plane pummels people with poop

You know what's better than a Nerf blaster that can whip out 100 rounds of fun in rapid succession? One that can handle 1,000 rounds! In his latest One Day… Read the rest of the article: Adam Savage brings the mayhem with a 1,000-shot Nerf gun mod

The United Nations General Assembly has a new President: Ecuador’s Foreign Minister, Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces. Every year, the U.N. votes to choose a new ramrod for its General Assembly.… Read the rest of the article: The boy's club that is the U.N. General Assembly has chosen a woman to lead them

You’ve likely heard of Vancouver, British Columbia. Surrey? Maybe not: it’s a city in its own right and a part of the Greater Vancouver Regional District. Surrey’s got an unfortunate… Read the rest of the article: Feral Peacocks terrorize Canadian neighborhood

In this 2009 short film, Nick Cave plays the part of a writer, who resides in a city populated entirely by cats. Yep, that's weird, but it's Nick Cave, so… Read the rest of the article: Nick Cave narrates The Cat Piano and it's, predictably, both horrific and sublime

Even if you live in an area where keeping a raccoon as a pet is totally cool,  a raccoon is a wild animal that shouldn't be kept as a pet.… Read the rest of the article: Owning a pet raccoon sounds like an exhausting pain in the ass

I've been hooked on hard-boiled crime novels and Film Noir since I picked up my first copy (there have been many) of Dashiel Hammett's Red Harvest back in the mid-1990s.… Read the rest of the article: Rot the eyes right out of your head with this collection of 60 free Film Noir classics