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When Apps That Are Awesome Become Awesomer: Real Actors Read Yelp Reviews

When Apps That Are Awesome Become Awesomer: Real Actors Read Yelp Reviews

  Yelp is an awesome app, right? – real people around the globe, rating and reviewing all manner of restaurants, shops & spas in passionate detail.  Reviewers take their Yelping […]

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Best of Music 2012: Sonic Sunshine-Jimmy Cliff’s “Rebirth”

Best of Music 2012: Sonic Sunshine-Jimmy Cliff’s “Rebirth”

  What stands to be regarded as one of the best albums of 2012 is reggae legend and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Jimmy Cliff’s groovin’ new album […]

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In Which Margaret Atwood is Poised to Become a Tech Mogul & Muses on Writing, Riding & Higgsteria

In Which Margaret Atwood is Poised to Become a Tech Mogul & Muses on Writing, Riding & Higgsteria

Literary Legend Margaret Atwood regales the crowd at DisC’s Gateway to Bohemia 2011 event. As the saying goes “The best way to predict the future, is to invent it.” The […]

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Thursday Soul Treat: Andrew Schoultz, Adam Vollick & Daniel Lanois multi-media collab

Thursday Soul Treat: Andrew Schoultz, Adam Vollick & Daniel Lanois multi-media collab

Former skateboarder turned graffiti artist turned fine artist, Andrew Schoultz painted the entire exterior of Daniel Lanois’ Toronto studio in 7 days with a mural titled “The Winds Are Changin’” […]

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Must-See Film: Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece “RAN”

Remember reading Shakespeare’s King Lear in high school? I did and thought it was a pretty memorable cautionary tale of how power can corrupt and result in epic tragedy.  But, […]

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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night…

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night…

[One of the chicest women in the world: Iris Apfel, born 1921.] Dylan Thomas wrote the poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” about his desire for his […]

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Born To Rage: Guitar God Tom Morello & His Social Activism

Born To Rage: Guitar God Tom Morello & His Social Activism

Happy Birthday [May 30, 1964] to Tom Morello, Grammy-winning, [and totally awesome] guitarist of polemic hard rock band Rage Against The Machine and tireless social activist. Tom Morello, ranked #26 […]

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Eco-architecture: from Milan’s Bosco Verticale to Taipei’s Eco Ark

Eco-architecture: from Milan’s Bosco Verticale to Taipei’s Eco Ark

Urban centres around the globe suffer from similar ills – population densities which result in tremendous amounts of consumer waste and, consequently, environmental pollution. Architects, urban planners and designers have […]

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