Those of us who delighted in the intelligent absurdity of Python will remember Terry Jones foremost as a Pepperpot, or perhaps as the bowler-topped City Gent.
Category: Obituary
Reflections on the lives of noteworthy persons.
Neil Peart yielded an army of air drummers, and at one time or another many of us were the Jason Segel character from Freaks and Geeks, playing along to Tom Sawyer in our parents’ basement.
The backstory of the Billy Graham Library tells you everything you need to know about the vile money-and-power-grubbing charlatan who now controls the $300M “non-profit” and tax-exempt Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
It’s too soon to say what Downie’s influence and legacy will be as these pertain to his twilight interest in Chanie Wenjack and Indigenous people generally. But his place in the firmament of Canadian music is well established.
When Tom Petty arrived forty years ago I was ready. I first got into music during that delicious interval when British rock was still king but when its chief rivals—punk, post-punk, and new wave—were charging the palace gate. It was the 1970s and Rock-n-Roll having crossed the Atlantic over a decade before was now crossing back.
I learned today that my friend and co-author, Larry Loyie, is gone. Larry’s Cree name…
IT’S BEEN SO LONG now, I don’t remember exactly when I discovered Car Talk. But…
I WAS NOT A devotee of Roger Ebert, but Life Itself makes me wish I’d paid…
THE CURRENCY of the word outpouring was notable this week: over at the National Post,…
KURT COBAIN WAS NOT a generation’s representative, a spokesperson, or even a rock star. Many…
ACCORDING TO A Facebook post of his estranged son, Nathan, Fred Phelps Sr, the founder…
A SETTLEMENT, John Kerry said this week, is better than settlements. Yet for years now,…
EVEN AFTER the tide of events had vindicated Nelson Mandela, beginning with his 1990 release…
AMONG THE GOOD Riddances this past week were exhibitions of ill grace from British citizens…
I FIRST CAME across the writer Christopher Hitchens when he was a young Socialist contributing…
WAYNE K. SPEAR 