Frank London’s Klezmer Brass All Stars blew (literally) through Vancouver tonight. Their concert was short — just under two hours — and the band was a subset of the full thing — a quintet, of guitar, trombone, tuba, drums and trumpet. But, man, did they rock. If they come to your town, go see.
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It can be fun being shooting at a wedding, particularly when you’re unofficial and the happy couple isn’t relying on you to capture it all.
Every time the issue of micropayments — small amounts of money charged for access to content — arises, we’re inundated with blog posts about why they won’t work for media. I read those posts and I nod my head in agreement with some of the points that are made, but I keep going back to [...]
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In 1995, Fin Donnelly swam the 1,300-kilometre-long Fraser River to draw attention to the need to save B.C.’s rivers, an epic three-week experience I was fortunate enough to be part of. Tonight, Fin was elected as a Member of Parliament, in a by-election in New Westminster-Coquitlam. Congratulations to one of the most sincere, dedicated and [...]
For the past three and a half years, I’ve been (very slowly) learning how to play violin. This morning, I started thinking about how music-making is like journalism. For one thing, we are all born with an innate music-making ability, but not everyone puts in the effort needed to become a musician. We’re all born [...]
The addition of the Publish2 widget (at right) means some changes for the blog. I won’t be doing squibs as stand-alone posts. Instead, I’m saving the links to my Publish2 account, and then using the widget to bring them into the blog. At any time, the widget will show the latest 10 links, along with [...]
Riding the small people-moving ferries that work Vancouver’s False Creek is one of the pleasures of the city.
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(See bottom of post for updates.) As I watch the lusciously designed, mainly Western European newspapers roll out at Juan Antonio Giner’s What’s Next: Innovations in Newspapers, I keep wondering what effect something like i would have on urban newspaper sales in North American cities. i, according to Giner, is something newish: a daily newsmagazine. [...]
If you’ve come to the site — and not just read this in your favourite RSS reader — you’ve noticed the changes. As part of the desire/need to reinvigorate my blogging, I’ve re-themed the site (using Valdimir Prelovac’s Amazing Grace). That’s meant some backend work and changes. Amazing Grace uses categories for the lower of [...]
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