Why do you hate LeBron James?
Posted by Simon in Sports on 14. Jun, 2011 | 3 Comments
Admit it. You hate LeBron James. Come on now, it’s OK. Unless you live in Miami you hate the guy. You do. Even if you don’t know who LeBron James is, that just means you hate him and you don’t know it yet. Sports is often a narrative. In the case of the 2011 NBA [...]
Open Letter: Toronto Hip-Hop v. the Toronto Media (by Addi “Mindbnder” Stewart)
Posted by Anupa in Music, Toronto on 21. Mar, 2011 | 0 Comments
Addi “Mindbender” Stewart, a local hip-hop activist of sorts — Drake once shouted him out in an interview as the biggest hip-hop head in Toronto — just penned this letter to NOW Magazine with respect to its (poor) hip-hop coverage, and I’ve got to agree. A regular debate I have with friends, hip-hop coverage/support in [...]
Why the iPad is stupid but will take over the world anyways
Posted by Simon in media, Pop Culture, Uncategorized on 27. Jan, 2010 | 16 Comments
First off, iPad? Ew. Second, Apple has got itself some phenomenal swag, as the kids say. It created enough buzz with this product launch to render an Obama State of the Union speech all but irrelevant and the kicker? The company describes its own product as magical. Whaaaaa? Can you imagine if Ford came out [...]
The Toronto Star's Halloween costume
Posted by jessekg in Toronto on 28. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
Everybody is trying to get in on the halloween fun this year. Even the Toronto Star dressed its website up briefly as a cheesy tabloid. This was the home page around 5:00pm today, clearly geared at scaring every single Torontonian to read the story that was nothing but a standard health piece from healthzone.ca. Other than [...]
For Sale: prime editorial space
Posted by jessekg in media on 28. Sep, 2009 | 0 Comments
I could be over-reacting about this whole thing, but I was a bit confused when I opened up to the feature in the October issue of Toronto Life to see this spread (above). I probably thought about it for five minutes, wondering whose idea it was that a picture of birds on a telephone wire perfectly [...]
