Silent Cacophony
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Escape From the Library
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein I have to admit that I don’t like the genre of mystery. It’s not appealing to me to see someone solve a murder. Detective fiction seems too formulaic and improbable for me to truly get into the story. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library sounded like a great…
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Oliver Spitts – Summer Sessions Tour (London, ON)
The F.I.T.C.H. Academy Summer Sessions Tour (London, ON) Oliver Spitts is bringing his summer long tour to London, Ontario, Canada tomorrow night. After this show, there are only two stops left on this multiple city tour which has included dates in the U.S.A. and all across Canada. He brings with them the following acts Budd…
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Justice League Stand-Alones
Aquaman – Vol. 1: The Drowning This is the start of a new era for Aquaman. He wants to work closely with the people of Earth and hopes that a new embassy will help him achieve peace between the land and the sea. Of course, there are those on both sides that don’t want to…
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Hip-Hop Has a Birthday? (Know Your History)
August 11th, 1973 is considered to be the birth of hip-hop culture. In this edition of Know Your History, we get to the bottom of how that can be. This was part of Radio Western’s Word Up 2018, the first annual day-long celebration of hip-hop music and culture. This is Episode 78 of Know Your…
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Celebrating Hip-Hop’s Birthday on the Radio
94.9 CHRW Radio Western and Break North Radio Present: Word Up! A 24 Hour Celebration of Hip-Hop Culture. This is huge. We have never dedicated an entire day to hip-hop before on Radio Western. But what better day to do it than August 11th, the official birthday of hip-hop. There will be mixshows by live…
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Port Gratiot Trail
Just across the border of Sarnia, Ontario is the small community of Port Gratiot. I decided to explore the nature preserve and walking trail because I like exploring new places to run and thought doing so in a different country would be a nice change of pace. The trail had regular distance markings along it,…
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The Third Doctor Returns
Doctor Who – Heralds of Destruction The Third Doctor is no longer exiled on Earth. The TARDIS works and he is ready to go on an adventure, but before he can, a strange spaceship crashes and begins what looks to be a full-scale invasion. Fortunately for the Doctor, his previous incarnation shows up to help…
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Concrete Mob Comes to the Forest City
Concrete Mob exploded onto the hip-hop scene with their iconic song, “Boiling Point” that was featured on the first Rap Essentials compilation back in 1996. The group consists of emcees; Blackjak and Deuce Deuce. They grew up as childhood friends, beat-boxing and reciting rhymes on their neighborhood streets of downtown Toronto, Canada. They quickly made…
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Kevin Couldn’t Save Television
Kevin Probably Saves the World is the kind of television show that we really need more of. It’s a unique hour-long drama that is fully of charm and humour. It has elements of fantasy and spirituality in every episode that could be a little off-putting to some people. Maybe that is the reason we won’t…
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Life Goals of a Twelve-Year-Old
The Life List by Lori Nelson Spielman Did you ever make a list of life goals when you were young? Have you ever revisited it? That, in essence, is the plot of this novel by Lori Nelson Spielman. It revolves around a thirty-something woman who wrote a list when she was twelve years old. She…