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Deepa Mehta took Canada to the Oscars in 2006 with Water and she could do it again with Funny Boy. The daring Indian-Canadian director delivers one of her best and most beautiful films yet with this adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s acclaimed 1994 novel. Funny Boy, which is Canada’s official selection in the Oscar race for […]
The NFL season is cruising (sort of) along. There’s been some hiccups, and you never really know when a team could get shut down due to COVID-19, but we’re here for week eight, and the picks are still rolling in. At this point in the season, you have a pretty good idea about who is […]
LaMelo Ball is about to enter the NBA, in one of its most unusual seasons ever, as one of its most unusual rookies ever. For starters, he’s got a weird jump shot. It’s a two-handed thrust that looks almost like he’s tossing a chest pass at the basket (until it goes in). And then there’s […]
If you know anything about getting a good haircut in London, then it’s more than likely you have heard the name SliderCuts. With more than 15 years in the barbering game, Mark Maciver, better known as SliderCuts, is one of the most well-known barbers in the country. From Lebron James to Stormzy to Anthony Joshua […]
Headache for headache. Malcontent for malcontent. Flawed, aging point guard for flawed, point guard with a serious injury history. Plus a first-round pick. Wednesday evening’s Russell Westbrook for John Wall trade that caught the basketball world by surprise looks like the quintessential “we’ll trade our problem for your problem and hope for the best.” But there are […]
Jessie Reyez had big things planned for 2020. The Columbian-Canadian R&B singer was poised for full-blown superstardom as the year kicked off, touring with Billie Ellish and releasing her hugely anticipated album Before Love Came to Kill Us—which we spoke with her about earlier this year—with Universal. Then, of course, the coronavirus pandemic hit—and the […]
Tis the season for “Best of” lists and year-end awards, and when Apple recently announced the App Store’s Best of 2020 winners, Canadian developer RAC7 Games’ Sneaky Sasquatch was named the Apple Arcade Game of the Year. The annual list celebrated 15 of the year’s best apps and games, chosen for their creativity, quality and innovation, […]
The NBA is so close we can taste it. So close that training camps actually started today. So close that we now know the highly-anticipated slate of Xmas Day games, which is always a huge thing in the league. For all the talk of ratings and everything over the past few months, the NBA really […]
Darryl Brown is in the middle of relocating. After spending the past five years in Los Angeles getting Midwest Kids and his eponymous label off the ground, he’s taking it back to Toledo, Ohio, the city where he grew up that he says inspires everything he designs, for the launch of his second full Darryl Brown […]
The 2020s started off on an awful foot, with the seismic losses of Kobe Bryant and Pop Smoke. Many thought that things couldn’t feel more surreal than they did in February. Then COVID-19 happened. The NBA suspended its season on April 11, after Jazz center Rudy Gobert became infected with the novel coronavirus. Within the hour, […]
