Is Bob Dylan a poet, who didn’t know it?
What the Nobel Prize committee was saying by awarding Bob Dylan a nod for Literature
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Bob Dylan
Please, English teachers: don’t assign Bob Dylan lyrics
Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize is good news—unless it brings Bob into more classrooms as mere lyrics, divorced from his songs’ musical context
Good times that went sour
Robbie Robertson sings about his split with the Band on a new CD
What it sounds like
Michael Ignatieff addressed a rally of perhaps 1,200 this evening inside a hotel ballroom in downtown Ottawa. There were the...
’Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music from Hank Snow to The Band,’ by Jason Schneider
One of the few Canadian music books that goes back as far as Hank Snow and Wilf Carter—and sheds new light on some of the more canonized mouldy oldies
Because the night
At a film festival, amid the stars and the hype and lurid glare of over-sponsored glamour, you live in hope that you’ll stumble...
Photo Gallery: Toronto Film Festival 2007
The stars just seem to shine brighter north of the border. Exclusive pictures of celebrities on the red carpet and in their own...