Category Entertainment
Bluesfest 2016 II – The Lumineers
It was one of those songs, an ear worm that gets into your head and won’t leave. A huge hit, the sort of thing every new band dreams of and prays for. There is more to The Lumineers than “Ho Hey,” from their 2012 debut album, as they proved during a very damp set this […]
Bluesfest 2016 – I
Music can strike to the heart of my being, stirring up an emotional reaction unlike anything else. Especially live music. This summer, for the first time in more than a decade, I didn’t purchase a full festival pass for the RBC Ottawa Bluesfest that started last week and runs until the 17th. I looked at […]
Best Laid Plans
The Ottawa Jazz Festival ended last night. If you were planning on attending and hadn’t noted the dates you probably aren’t all that thrilled with me for bringing that up. My apologies…but really, it is up to you to keep on track of these things. I am neither your mother nor your secretary. I mention […]
Sex, Death and Bowling
I was seduced by the title. Not the sex and death aspects but the bowling. I’d never heard of the film before I discovered it while browsing through Netflix. The premise seemed reasonable enough: a family dealing with an impending, premature, death with a bowling tournament as the backdrop. Life goes on after all. My […]
Christian Mingle
They make movies with the flimsiest of premises these days. There are films based on books, on comics (excuse me, I mean graphic novels), on true stories, on news events, and on video games. So I guess a film based on a dating website was inevitable. If I had seen Christian Mingle in the theatre […]
The Debate
It must be a week since I last wrote about Donald Trump, who is so close to sewing up the Republican Party nomination for the US presidency that he can almost taste it. Rather than write something new, I thought it fitting to re-post this piece from last August, the first time “The Donald” graced […]
Look Who’s Back
For our family, Friday nights are frequently a time to de-stress at the end of the work week. We eat dinner together then curl up in front of the television to watch a movie together. That can sometimes add to the stress as we try to decide what to watch (usually on Netflix). Three people […]
Elvis Wasn’t In This Building
I don’t remember reading the book before. Maybe it came from my parents’ house when they moved into a retirement residence, or maybe I picked it up at a garage sale. Not that I frequent garage sales. It was a Perry Mason mystery, Erle Stanley Gardner’s The Case of the Cautious Coquette. (Does anyone these […]
Remembering Johnny
It’s Easter, and today I miss Johnny Hart. The creator of two popular late 20th century comic strips died in 2007. Neither the Wizard of Id nor B.C. is among my all-time favourite strips. I am more partial to Doonesbury, Dilbert, Calvin and Hobbes and Bloom County. Still, most of the time I would find […]
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