Read this, sound smart
BOOKS | Read this, sound smart. Never stop learning. If anything, that’s what growing up with Oprah taught us. Alas, between everything else we already have to do and deal with – jobs, families, ...
A Lot Like Love movie review
A Lot Like Love movie REVIEW | In a lot of ways, A Lot Like Love is totally predictable. Nice guy Owen (Ashton Kutcher) and artistic Emily (Amanda Peet) are pseudo friends (pseudo in that they ...
Saturday by Ian McEwan not your typical day
REVIEW | Saturday by Ian McEwan | Knopf/Random House. A day in the life of a middle-class guy in the modern world? Total cliché, right? Well, yes, but while the premise of Ian McEwan’s novel ...
Fever Pitch covers all the bases
Fever Pitch film REVIEW | Three things about Fever Pitch are surprising right off the bat. It’s a Nick Hornby adaptation that doesn’t star Hugh Grant. It’s about baseball, but Kevin Costner ...
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason DVD review
REVIEW | Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Universal), with Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant. It wasn’t as good as the first film, but Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason did well for a ...
The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green, review
BOOKS | The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green, review | Joshua Braff, Algonquin Books, 2004. Celebrity brothers are all over the place right now. Former Stand By Me star Jerry O’Connell’s ...
Stuart McLean’s Stories from the Vinyl Cafe (10th anniversary edition)
BOOKS | Stories from the Vinyl Café, 10th anniversary edition | PENGUIN Canada, 2005 Stuart McLean may look like a boring old dude from the CBC, but his writing is actually funny. Don’t believe ...
What not to read: a listicle
BOOKS | Sometimes knowing what not to read is as important as knowing what you should. Particularly since the bestseller list can be deceiving. So what to read? Well, I write about books and ...
He’s Just Not That Into You is trash
REVIEW | He’s Just Not That Into You, 2004. New self-help guide is sexist and condescending in the extreme. DATING | Oprah isn’t always right. Don’t get me wrong, I love the show. I even ...
Bryan Adams, Room Service review
REVIEW | Bryan Adams, Room Service | Polydor Records (Universal), ** 1/2. There’s something comforting about a musician like Bryan Adams. While he may not being doing anything particularly ...
B for Buster book review
REVIEW | B for Buster | YA FICTION. The romance of military life fades quickly for a teen caught in battle. In Iain Lawrence’s book B for Buster, Kak, a 16-year old boy nicknamed for his Ontario ...
Sarah McLachlan concert review
REVIEW | Fans loved this Sarah McLachlan concert. While the crowd was too demure to be said to have gone wild when Sarah McLachlan took the stage at GM Place on Friday night, they made it clear ...