CultureWagner’s epic ’Ring’ has defeated many directors, including Robert LepageCritics have been harsh over the Quebec director’s crack at the fantasy opera.
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BusinessThe DVD is hardly dyingJust because people don’t want to buy DVDs doesn’t mean they don’t want to watch them
BusinessIs the smartwatch going mainstream with Pebble?A Kickstarter bonanza suggests the smartwatch is an idea whose time has come
UncategorizedHow not to respond to criticismUpdate: Something we didn’t know at the time this strip ran was that it’s about to come to an end . As noted in comments, there’s...
UncategorizedJokes aren’t funny?Here’s one idea I’ve been pondering when it comes to half-hour sitcoms: we (and I mean me) tend to fixate too much on jokes. A lot...
UncategorizedLong Lost Uncle Aesop"Immoral" seems like a rather harsh word to use for Glee ’s use of a fairly old convention of television storytelling. The...
CultureMassenet: Creator of operas that singers and audiences loveBut one hundred years later, producers still scoff at Jules Massenet’s work
UncategorizedThe Canadian BluesYesterday I was talking to a colleague who’d been overseas recently and mentioned how popular Flashpoint seemed to be over there:...