Reunion Tour trend continues in 2009

We are only a week into 2009 and it is shaping up to be a huge one on the live music scene. With current artists touring the globe through the summer, we are seeing a trend of past artists and bands getting back...

Vancouver's Coalition Yes rally on Dec. 4

NDP MP Peter Julian and former Liberal cabinet minister Herb Dhaliwal were among the speakers at the Vancouver Coalition Yes rally at the city's Trade and Convention Centre ballroom on Dec. 4. The crowd in the...

Coalition Yes rally in Vancouver

Vancouver's Trade and Convention Centre ballroom was filled and overflowing at the Coalition Yes rally.

Ireland Voted "NO" to Lisbon

On wednesday I began to realise that the No campaigners were going to win.  I had asked a number of people at work what they thought the outcome would be and with one exception they all told me that they were...

Will Israel Attack Iran's Nuclear Facilities Before the End of the Bush Admin...

Nouriel Roubini has successfully predicted many things well before they happened or were even seen as plausible.   For this reason, his recent post is particularly ominous."I had the pleasure to meet and...

Rugby striptease video hits the web

It is hard to believe that Lithuania beat Australia at rugby."The Austrian national rugby team tried to get over their 48-0 defeat by Lithuania by staging a mass striptease in the capital Vilnius late on Saturday, only to find they had been caught on video and put on the...

She didn't say "Oui," but she didn't say "Non"

[Updated with input from Val Ivanhoe on Dec. 14, 2008; see comments #2 and #3.]   Isn't "oui" the French word for "yes"?Most of the time, but not always. There is another , "Spanish-sounding" French word for...

Classical Rock

"During the heyday of the 70's, before Disco melted down the creativity level of music to drum beats and homogonized dance music, and before the rebellion of the three chord reaction to the dumbing down of music, the Punk DIY movement, the stellar sphere of sound was...

Hopi Run Celebrates Sacred Water

The runners came from 12 desert villages, some of which, such as Oraibi, are actually older than Tenochtitlan, founded in 1325 A.D. In the Hopi mesas, the water is scarce and always threatened by mining...

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