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We All Need Free TV
Television has always been free. All you needed was a television and an antenna. The networks could deliver quality programming by allowing corporate sponsors to advertise on their shows. This quickly turned into commercials. Now, it is standard practice to have our programs interrupted every ten minutes so we can watch a slew of advertising…
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Know Your History: A Spotlight on Queen Latifah
Cover of Queen Latifah Queen Latifah has achieved more than any other female artist in the history of this hip-hop. She has starred in movies, a few television series, has written books, earned a Golden Globe, two SAG awards, a Grammy award, and several other nominations for a variety of award shows. She continues to…
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Know Your History: A Spotlight on MC Lyte
Cover of MC Lyte Welcome to the third installment of Know Your History focusing on Women in Hip-Hop. We are doing this here on DOPEfm to celebrate International Women’s Day and shine a spotlight on hip-hop’s better half, the women. We’ve already spent a half hour focusing on the 1970s and how present women were…
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Ghettosocks Live TONIGHT
Ghettosocks will be playing at Ceilidhhouse TONIGHT! It is one of the many bars and pubs in Hamilton’s Historic Hess Village. It’s a great place to catch live music in the city. Beatbinjaz is putting on this concert and you can buy tickets at Dr. Disc or at the door. DOPEfm will be there as…
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The Left in The Hammer
The Left are an amazing hip-hop group from Detroit. I’ve been bumping their debut album, “The Gas Mask” ever since it first came across my radar last year. I was really excited to see them come to Hamilton to rock a dope show this past weekend. I love going to rap concerts in small clubs.…
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Chasing Content – August 2010
It’s the first of the month. Time for that super-awesome feature we call Chasing Content, where we take a moment to reflect on all this month had to offer last year. You can read all of the posts from August 2010 or just these gems. Please feel free to leave comments on this or any of…
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Karma for the Comma
I love that visual pun. It’s brilliant. I also love the song that inspired it. Let’s listen to it and then look closely at that often misused and abused piece of punctuation that is the comma. The comma has a few basic functions and rolls to play in a sentence, but today I would like…
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Everwood is Now Complete
Everwood is hands-down the best television series I have ever seen. I watched it during it’s original run and was captivated for all four seasons. When I saw that it was available on DVD, I ran out and bought the first season. I then waited, and waited, and waited. The other three seasons never came…
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Chasing Content – July 3 Years Ago
Let’s take a moment to look back at what we were doing here three years ago at this time. You can read all of the posts from July 2008 or just these favourites. Thanks for Chasing Content with me, otherwise these posts may just end up buried in the archives. The First Silent Cacophony –…
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Know Your History: Episode 16 – Ladies of the 80s
Welcome to Know Your History, your monthly dose of hip-hop knowledge. You can download this show for free, stream it with the player below, or just continue reading. This is Part 2 of our 3-part series on female emcees. We put together eight hours of radio in tribute to the Women in Hip-Hop for DOPEfm`s broadcast…