Category Archives: Shameless Promotion

Austra Find Their Own Social Scene

Austra's Katie Stelmanis

Austra’s Katie Stelmanis

With the annual Toronto-centric-ish, Arts and Crafts-centric-ish Field Trip music festival kicking-off today I spoke with the very Katie Stelmanis from the very excellent Austra about the fest, feminism and finding her own social scene.

Needless to say, she’s got a wealth of connections to rival Broken Social Scene’s.

To read the story head over to Huffington Post Music Canada by clicking here.

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Coeur de Pirate On Loving Liz Lemon, Covering Kenny Rogers And What She Learned From ‘The Wire’

Coeur de Pirate

Coeur de Pirate

Béatrice Martin, better known as the A+ list chanteuse Coeur De Pirate in Quebec, happens to be a big fan of the bumbling, stumbling 30 Rock character Liz Lemon.

Sarah found this out while speaking to Martin recently about The Wire, covering Kenny Rogers and more.

To read the story head over to Huffington Post Music Canada by going here.

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Foxcatcher: The Artistic Possibilities of Wrestling At Cannes

Foxcatcher

Foxcatcher

The movie Foxcatcher debuted at the Cannes film festival this week and its reception may signal the creation of a new sub-genre — the meaningful amateur wrestling film.

Indeed, Foxcatcher is being hailed as the next great sports movie and Sarah explained what all the hype was about for Fightland.

To read the story go here.

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How Jann Arden Became One Of Canada’s Most Beloved Singers

Jann Arden

Jann Arden

It turns out that during Sarah’s indie rocker/floor-sitter ’90s years she secretly harboured an appreciation for adult-contempo balladeer Jann Arden.

The world found this out because Sarah wrote about about it — and interviewed Arden — for a feature in Huffington Post Music Canada.

To read the story go here.

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Tapped Out: At The Premiere Of Anderson Silva And Lyoto Machida’s New Film

Anderson Silva

Anderson Silva

Anderson SilvaKrzysztof Soszynski and Lyoto Machida are in a new martial arts movie called Tapped Out and Sarah attended the film’s Toronto premiere.

It turns out the film was quite alright for what it was and the fight sequences were pretty smart, too.

To read her review and red carpet recap, head over to Fightland here.

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