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The Night Before the First Day of School
Here’s an excerpt from “Poet X” by Elizabeth Acevedo. I thought it was fitting to share on this, the last day of summer vacation. It is written from the perspective of a teenage girl. I will be blogging about this verse novel soon. It was a great read! Let’s stick with the night-before-school theme and check…
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WIB Rap Radio – DJ Dick Vegas + Show & Prove
For the latest edition of Word is Bond Rap Radio, we bring you a guest mixset from DJ Dick Vegas. He spins some of his favourite records in an all-vinyl hour-long set. For the last hour of the program, we featured the live hip-hop trivia game show that Chase March did for Radio Western’s 24…
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Chasing Content – Last September
It’s time for another edition of Chasing Content, that monthly feature that has us looking back at the best content featured on this blog from this month one year ago. Read all of the posts from last September or just these highlights. Hana’s Story Needed to be Told An educator in a small museum in Japan…
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Hip-Hop Anonymous – Saturday
Hip-Hop Anonymous is a monthly hip-hop event thrown by DWG Entertainment. Tomorrow night, DJ Wiskaz will be holding down the 1s and 2s and cutting it up nicely all night long. With performances by Andro Joseph Bray Doniot Chase March Diztrikt Apolo Don Markx G Premacy Henny Honey Ice Boy I.G. Johnny Bars Nate Oh…
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That One Time I Ran Steeplechase
In middle school, I ran track and cross country. I still remember the first time I went to a meet and saw this beautiful red track. I was in awe. The surface was soft and had a bit of a bounce to it. It was nothing like the dirt tracks I had seen. In fact,…
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Star Trek / Planet of the Apes Crossover
Star Trek / Planet of the Apes: The Primate Directive Star Trek was a television series that ran for three season from from 1966 to 1969. The first Planet of the Apes movie was released in 1968. That is one of the reasons that a crossover event just makes sense. They are both great sci-fi…
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FanExpo25 Highlights
FanExpo celebrated its 25 Anniversary this weekend and I had a blast. The Doctor Who Society always has props that you can get your picture taken with. This year, they had the Face of Boe there. So, I donned my 9th Doctor costume for this photo-op. Looks just like the episode, doesn’t it? One of…
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Celebrate National Radio Day with Word is Bond
Word is Bond Rap Radio hit the airwaves on National Radio Day to celebrate what campus radio is all about. DJ Chase March started off the show by spinning some classic hip-hop tracks about radio by Public Enemy, LL Cool J, and Run-DMC. He then kept things moving by spinning live on the Technics 1200 turntables.…
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The Strange Library
What a strange looking book. The front cover opens from the bottom to the top. Underneath it, another flap needs to be folded down. The text on the first page is ridiculously large. It doesn’t quite fit two paragraphs. After that, the text is a more conventional size. There are colourful illustrations throughout as well.…
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Rapper Pens Great Fiction (Supermarket)
Supermarket by Bobby Hall I enjoy listening to audiobooks. I borrowed this one on the Libby App from the public library without really looking closely at it. It was recommended to me by a page I work with. The story captured me from the start and I whipped through the audio book quicker than usual.…