If You Are Also Using Controlled Substances, This is the Rob Ford Update You Want

When the folks at Taiwanese NMAWorldEdition report a story, they don’t seem to play by the same rules as Western news organizations, but they do make it entertaining and it’s hard to miss their points, even without speaking the language.

The Last Sex Pistols Show [video]

It’s not perfect, particularly in the beginning but I’m still glad someone shot this. It is the very last performance by the Sex Pistols at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom in January of 1978. It was at the end of that year that Winterland itself met with the wrecking ball and, of course just over a…

Which Middle Class is Justin Trudeau Targeting?

Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have made it clear that their plan for the 2015 election is to target the ‘middle class’. The phrase is probably the most commonly used in recent political history. Everyone wants to court the middle class because nearly everyone thinks that they are part of the middle class. It will be interesting…

New Video from Dating Myself Starring and Directed By Luvia Petersen of Continuum

Dating Myself (Facebook), featuring Laurda (guitar/vocals), Jessi✰ (bass) and Jen6 (drums), originally formed in 1995 during the heyday of west coast grudge. For their latest video ‘Amnesia’ the band has teamed up with Luvia Petersen and Omari Newton from the Showcase sci-fi drama Continuum. In addition to starring in the video, Petersen also co-directed it…

1977 BBC News Special on the Dangers of Punk Rock

This BBC special on the ‘dangers’ of punk rock is probably more entertaining now than it was in 1977. It features, among others, DJ John Peel (of ‘the Peel Sessions’) and Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks. It also features of panel of British clergy and other defenders of propriety to warn you of the dangers…

Watch Wes Anderson’s Short ‘Castello Cavalcanti’

Wes Anderson’s short film Castello Cavalcanti in advance of his forthcoming feature The Grand Budapest Hotel. According to Film Book the synopsis goes “race car driver Jed Cavalcanti…suffers a mishap during the Motle Miglia rally and finds himself in a small town with a few familial surprises…in Italy in September 1955.” Castello Cavalcanti stars Jason…

Artists Rendering of What Mars Looked Like 4 Billion Years Ago

There is a great deal of talk about exoplanets and specifically Earth like planets lately. So far though there are few planets more Earth like or better situated in the Goldilocks zone than Mars, which also happens to be close enough to reach using current technology. This animation shows an artists rendering of what Mars…

Watch the Doctor Who Mini-sode ‘The Night of the Doctor’

We are just 9 days from the long-awaited and highly anticipated Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special ‘Day of the Doctor’ now. Today we get our first real taste with the 7 minute micro-prequel “Night of the Doctor”. It features 8th Doctor Paul McGann and takes us back to the final days of the time war…

Was the CBC Paid for News Coverage?

Former CBC host Jesse Brown is among those claiming that the CBC was paid, through parks Canada, for news coverage of the search for the Franklin Expedition. This would not be the first time this has happened in journalism, notably the Bush administration was found, several times, to have paid for favorable news coverage. CBC…