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Professional basketball is back, hopefully bringing you good cheer this holiday season. Corny seasonal opening lines aside, while we know some of the game’s best players preferred a later start date to the 2020-21 NBA season, precisely zero fans are complaining about the imminent return of meaningful games during the most wonderful time of the year. Just as the conclusion of the 2019-20 season […]
Making it as a restaurant in some of Canada’s biggest foodie cities on a good year requires hustle, timing, that secret sauce, and a ton of luck. Add a global pandemic to the mix, and circumstances instead served newly minted restaurants with much of the opposite: public lockdowns (meaning no on-site patrons and a switch to […]
As we are exiting 2020—one of the most frustrating years in recent memory—here’s one thing that you can look forward to: On March 5, 2021, Coming 2 America, the sequel to Eddie Murphy‘s 1988 comedy classic Coming to America, will be available to stream via Prime Video. This is one of 2021’s most anticipated films, and with […]
Rowdy Rebel is free. The Brooklyn rapper, who rose to fame in 2014 along with Bobby Shmurda and the GS9 collective, was released from the Collins Correctional Facility in New York on December 15, after serving six years behind bars. The rapper has already received an outpouring of support on social media in just 24 […]
As a former gymnast, Rachel Luba is an expert at balancing. Which is perfect, since the baseball agent is juggling a ton these days. For starters, there’s the fledgling player representation agency she launched in 2019 with a goal of turning an antiquated business model on its head. Unapologetically herself in the historically male-dominated industry of […]
Last last month, Universal Music UK announced the launch of Def Jam’s UK outpost, 0207 Def Jam, helmed by the five-piece team of Alec and Alex Boateng as the label’s Co-Presidents, Amy Tettey as Managing Director, Char Grant as A&R Director and Jacqueline Eyewe as the Marketing Director. The news came with the promise that they would be […]
Last year, we opened this feature with the words “2019 has been strongly mixed”, and given the thunderstorm of horror that has been 2020—a dreadful cocktail of a globe-trotting deadly virus, worldwide economic devastation and worsening race relations—we’d do just about anything to go back to those halcyon days. However! Music, as always, has been an […]
It’s been a big, weird year for Canadian music. The likes of The Weeknd, Drake, and dvsn all dropped heat in 2020 to help get us through lockdown, while rising artists have been forced to pivot to online streaming formats in order to survive. So, where do we go from here? As we enter 2021 […]
It’s been a long fight. The music industry has been upended, and our lives along with it. But in the most challenging of years, some voices still managed to stand out, either lifting us out of the darkness or resonating with us during a time of unrest. Good music really hit different in 2020. And in Canada, […]
Not content with the full slate of movies and Disney+ series they announced back in 2019, Marvel Studios took the (virtual) stage during Disney’s Investors Day to detail a lot more about the MCU’s future. While 2020 didn’t offer a single bit of new MCU content (thanks, COVID), Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige was quick to remind […]
