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How would you like to wake up to a warm cup of James in the morning? Start your morning right by watching The Big James Morning show before you begin your day.

It’s not easy waking up and going to drudgery known as your day job, but with a variety of topics, special guests and live acts too, The Big James Morning Show will get you prepped to face the outside world…

Laurence Video Rants: The 1%

Like many, Laurence Tenenbaum isn’t pleased with how the 1% have ruined the economy, bought off politicians, ruined the lives of many people and continue to do so. He heads down to Occupy Montreal to deliver this video rant, which he sees as a warning to those who continue to rip off ordinary people like him…

Laurence Video Rants: ComicCon

Laurence went to the 2011 Montreal ComicCon and wasn’t impressed to say the least. There was no free stuff and the security, costumed as soldiers were way more agressive and militaristic then they needed to be. In this week’s Video Rant, he tells us why he didn’t even go back the second day with his two-day pass…

Laurence Video Rants: Fast Food Ripoff

My first video rant is about being ripped off at a fast food chain. The food was terrible, the portions to small, the quality not there, the fries stale and cold and oversalted and the fish was overcooked. I could’ve gotten something a lot better for a lot less money. It’s also about my financial situation, job prospects and the state of the economy in Montreal…

Wasteful Thinking (online doc premiere)

With the world’s population projected to hit seven billion later this year, a stable supply of food has never been more important.

Recent spikes in food prices have set off riots around the world and have been linked to revolutions in the Middle East and the famine devastating the horn of Africa. Even here at home, rising food prices are making people think more about what they eat and where it comes from…

A Modest Proposal for the City of Toronto (VIDEO)

Sometimes, there’s a little bit of Jonathan Swift in all of us. Mary Hynes is no different. Last week, this feisty senior living in North York, Ontario had some modest suggestions for Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and his plans to make serious budget cuts, affecting the city’s services, most notably the public library system. She got the opportunity to deliver her comments to the mayor in person at the Executive Committee’s Core Service Review panel…

Your guide to Montreal’s boot-stompin’ bluegrass scene

This city has a boot-stompin’, bango-twangin’ bluegrass scene, and at its core are some extremely talented musicians. “Bluegrass?” you may question, with a blank look or slight disdain. Your wavering knowledge of this sprightly music is understandable, but no longer acceptable. Not when you can hear bluegrass filtering out of a different venue almost any night of the week! I first discovered bluegrass as a kid, when my dad would blast the Osborne Brother’s version of Rocky Top on Saturday mornings while making breakfast, but it wasn’t until I moved to Montreal…

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal is back: Where’s the Jazz?

Another year, another Festival International de Jazz de Montreal experience. Thankfully this year I spent less time being detained by security for smuggling in contraband beer and more time listening to some really good tunes – but seriously, I have to ask this question every year: where is all the jazz?

Every year, I expect to hear some bebop or post-ragtime jazz – it is the type of jazz I play all the time in my head, the kind of jazz played on vinyl (with cracks, pops, imperfections and all) – but mostly I really appreciate music that makes me feel like I am marching in a New Orleans funeral procession. Is that so wrong?

Day 3 Sasquatch 2011: Noah and the Whale, Chromeo, Guided by Voices, Wilco and more…

I stepped outside of my tent and instantly noticed how many cars had disappeared from the campgrounds. People traveled from far and wide to attend Sasquatch, so it seemed as though everyone need a day to return to work on Tuesday, and with the exception of the select group of Wilco fans, every stage was fairly barren and open to easy front row access. Dressed in suits and tuxes, Noah and the Whale came out with a set up equally polished with their well-orchestrated mournful and occasionally inspirational pop tunes…

A Devil’s Din: A Psychedelic Cheerfully Mellow Trip

Psychedelic Rock and Roll is what A Devil’s Din is all about. After performing with numerous local bands like the Mongrels, Test Pilot, and The Mother Funkers, ace keyboardist and longtime underground musician David Lines finally took the reins and formed his own project: A Devil’s Din. With this new project, Lines’s freedom to explore his eclectic, yet exotic, musings leaves him boundless…

Dishonour Defied

Five years ago, a woman was gang raped in a remote village in Pakistan. Unlike many women before her, Mukhtar Mai decided to confront her assailants. She defied the conventional thinking and fought back. She took her battle to the highest courts in Pakistan. Mai became an international figure and now runs schools for children in her native village. Dishonour Defied is the story of how Mai made a life with courage after the tragedy…

Preview: Pirates of the Lachine Canal

What can you expect at a Lachine Canal Pirate Party? Maybe a few pirates prancing around with loot, eventually forming a conga line and dancing off the plank?

Ahoy Matey! These are not your father’s scurvy ridden, sea motion addled pirates. These pirates like to party-down!

The Healing Power of Half Baked live in Montreal

Well, before I saw them play at Esco Bar on Friday, I was coming down with an atrocious spring flu, green gunk and all. Ill, tired, and a little sad and weak, unable to enjoy a cigarette without that awful smell caused by having a blocked nose (and yes, I need to smoke when I’m sick because it makes me fell better!); I was in desperate need of a shaman…

Half Baked and Right By Midnight

This Friday Night get ready for one very strange trip to the realm of Half-Baked. They’ll be playing live, live, live! For one night, and for one night only! Are you sick of your parents not letting you eat your breakfast with a fork? Are you tired of the government telling you to pull up your pants?

JC Sunshine episode 304: JC’s Religious Experience with special guest Comedy Jesus

Suzie prepares a very special cup of coco for when JC comes to pick up Rex. Meanwhile, unaware of Rex’s whereabouts, JC considers preying for Rex’s return and tries to find a religion that suits him, while preparing to interview special guest Jesus (Troy Conrad) via satellite from California…

“YOU ARE EXPERIMENTAL!”: Acid Mother Temple live in Brooklyn

The night could best be summed up by two sentences overheard between the stage and the audience during the Acid Mothers Temple (AMT) set. After the first jam, better classified as an eruption of noise (or chaos ignoring any traditional song structure or melody), guitarist Kawabata Makoto looked across the mostly hallucinogenic experimenting audience and asked in broken English, “By the way, have you seen a flying saucer?” His question was met with…