Kathleen Edwards
Awhile back I spoke to a bunch of the 2012 Polaris Music Prize short list nominees and considering the Polaris Gala to determine the winner is happening on September 24, now’s a good time to launch these things upon the world.
The first, which I did for Spinner, is about singer Kathleen Edwards. She figures she’s crashing the cool kids party by being a Polaris nominee. We hope she pranks some people while she’s there.
To read the story click here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Michael Jackson
Spike Lee‘s much-anticipated Michael Jackson documentary Bad 25 debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last week.
It’s a pretty thorough though slightly fan-ish look at Jacko’s Bad album.
Sarah saw it and wrote about the 11 lessons she learned from the film for Huffington Post Music Canada.
You can read about them by going here.
Filed under Films, Music, Shameless Promotion
Elijah Wood & Jared Leto
UPDATE: Because Spinner is RIP we’ve unearthed this story in full here.
Risky Fuel personally knows no less than three people who ran afoul of 30 Seconds To Mars frontman Jared Leto being (we’ll refer to it charitably) “difficult” on three separate occasions. And the way these things go, once is an off day, but three times? That’s a pattern.
So it was with some mischievous enthusiasm that when Sarah spoke to actor Elijah Wood she got a status update on the running feud that has existed between Frodo and Jordan Catalano for half a decade.
As it turns out, there’s no hard feelings or ill will anymore. On Woods’ side, at least.
To read the whole thing, head over to Spinner by clicking here.
Filed under Films, Music, Shameless Promotion
Picture Day
One of the buzziest films of TIFF 2012 was the Canadian-made Picture Day thanks to the performance of emerging gal power actress Tatiana Maslany.
While she’s the star, the glue that holds the film together is the party rock band the ElastoCitizens and their real-life lead singer/actual movie actor in the film, Steven McCarthy.
Sarah talked to McCarthy about the film and his maybe reunited, maybe broken up, maybe on-hiatus band for Spinner.
You can read the story by clicking here.
Filed under Films, Music, Shameless Promotion
Iceberg Slim: Portrait Of A Pimp
Ice-T recently brought Iceberg Slim: Portrait Of A Pimp, the documentary about ghetto poet Iceberg Slim he directed and starred in, to the Toronto International Film Fest.
Sarah spoke to him for Huffington Post Music Canada about Iceberg’s influence on hip-hop and himself personally.
To read the full article go here.
Filed under Books, Culture, Films, Music, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
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