Icona Pop
When pop duo Icona Pop were in Toronto for the Big Jingle Sarah had a chance to talk to them about dancing.
It turns out Aino Jawo and Caroline Hjelt enjoy a good vogue every now and then.
Read the story at Huffington Post Music Canada.
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10 Musical Open Letters To Mark This Year Of The Open Letter
Eminem
This is an open letter from Sarah about an article about open letters written by musicians in 2013. There are letters from Amanda Palmer, Sinead O’Connor and more involved.
To read the full story head over to Huffington Post Music Canada by clicking here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
When Your Soul Gets Trapped Between Pillow Fighting And Jiu-Jitsu
Pillow Fight League
Sarah will be making her formal return to fighting soon — pillow fighting, that is — and she’ll be documenting her comeback for Fightland.
To set those stories, up her most recent piece looked back at the soul-searching that went on when she decided to switch from the theatrical feather fighting of the Pillow Fight League to the rolling around in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. It involves a bachelor party, a big tip and a mail order gi.
Read the story at Fightland here.
Filed under Culture, Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Bitter Sweet Memories Of Bitter Sweet Symphonies On The Strombo Show
George and Aaron on a plane.
Last night I got to take part in a radio segment of The Strombo Show with my friend-boss George Stroumboulopoulos. Despite threatening on social media that the topic for my appearance was alternately going to be a) songs about penis euphemisms, b) pro wrestling entrance theme music, and/or c) a tribute to the time former CFNY DJ Dani Alwell played the 40-minute version of The Orb’s “Blue Room” single, it was actually none of those things.
Mostly we ended up talking about The Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony” and Brit-pop from the early to mid-’90s.
You can hear the whole show here:
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
The Mixed Martial Artist And The Crack Smoking Mayor
Rob Ford
We all knew around here Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was in trouble when even dog-loyal right wing newspapers like the Toronto Sun and National Post began — in very modest tones — suggesting that the confirmed crack smoker was probably not a good leader of North America’s fourth biggest city right now.
Through it all, though, there was one acquaintance of Sarah’s who maintained a steadfast if often self-aware and trollish support for the mayor — UFC fighter Claude Patrick.
As such, Sarah talked to Patrick about Ford for Fightland. To read the article go here.
Filed under Jock Stuff, Politics, Shameless Promotion
