Mark David Chapman
Sometimes there’s a darker side to musical fandom. Where a person cares too much about an artist, in the wrong way, and it manifests itself in stalking and other unacceptable behavior.
In light of Taylor Swift recently receiving a restraining order against one of her more unsettling stalkers, Sarah invested this world for Huffington Post Music Canada and came up with a list of scary celebrity stalkers.
To read the whole article go here.
Filed under Culture, Music, Shameless Promotion
Rhonda Rousey’s cauliflower ear
Female mixed martial artists have to navigate a minefield of societal expectations that men never have to deal with. One of the surprisingly complex ones to manage is “What happens when you start getting cauliflower ear?”
The unmistakable sign that you roll is a badge of honour for many fighters, but in the normie world it’s not quite the same.
Sarah talked to four high level female fighters about their perspective on cauliflower ear.
To read the story head over to Fightland here.
Filed under Culture, Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Whitney Miller
Miss United States 2012 Whitney Miller has decided to train in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and this has meant a number of practical concerns for the beauty queen.
Like, is she worried about cauliflower ear? Or, what happens when she has to wear a fancy dress and she’s got mat burn?
Thankfully, Sarah got to the bottom of these questions and more when she interviewed Miller for Fightland.
To read the story go here.
Filed under Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Perry Farrell
Jane’s Addiction recently announced they’ll be celebrating the 25th anniversary of their landmark album Nothing’s Shocking with a series of shows in Las Vegas.
When they were in Toronto last summer Perry Ferrell took some time to talk about what the band went through to get that album out into the world.
To read the story head over to Huffington Post Music Canada by going here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
On the Strombocast
Due to the Winter Olympics my employer George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight has been pre-empted or in off-hour reruns for the last week.
This has made the staff a wee bit restless. So to combat that we’ve started doing something called the Strombocast — a sort of news roundup of interesting things that happen each day.
I made an appearance on the February 11 edition, offering up a musical recommendation for George.
Watch the Strombocast here:
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion, Television
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