Posts tagged celebrity
DVD and Book Reviews
Jan 7th
When British adventurer Ed Wardle fulfilled a lifetime’s ambition by being left to fend for himself for three months in wilds of Yukon, the resultant TV show on the UK’s channel 4 and National Geographic channels (backed by Twitter and live blogs) proved something of a fiasco. Wardle cracked up, nearly starved, and was brought home after 50 days… Some, however, get on better with the Canadian wilderness. We review a couple of examples…
Northern Wilderness
The latest exploits of the remarkable Ray Mears
The book of survivalist Ray Mears’s journey through Canada’s vast northern landscapes tells the story of the fur trade, More >
Interview – Rufus Wainwright
Dec 23rd
Rufus Wainwright - Image by Sharat Ganapati
Much as we’re loathe to appeal to the baser instincts of people who like to stereotype their pop and rock stars, it behoves us to report that we are talking to Montréal-raised Rufus Wainwright in a pink tent. He is dressed in a suit that defines the word dapper. He is one of rock’s smartest and classiest, openly gay, the owner of a knowing wink and the creator of some of the most operatically inclined pop music of the past ten years. He is firm in the belief that his music must be of More >
