During my visit to Berlin Germany in December 2019, I enjoyed a brief tour of the Old City Hall. (Cause, if you are me, an Old City Hall is what you go to see). During the tour, we entered Bear Hall which was set up for filming of some upcoming…
It's the evening of Halloween 2020, in the middle of a pandemic. This means I'm doing the same thing I do nearly every other night of this damn pandemic - sitting at my computer (actually standing, I have one of those desks now). I spend much of my time these…
The revival of small, often one screen, theatres in the past few years has been something to celebrate in communities across English North America. Hamilton has seen the revival of the Westdale [https://thewestdale.ca/] and the Playhouse [https://playhousecinema.ca/]. (Sadly, the Zoetic did not survive 2019 - it…
Video hearings is how the courts and adjudicative bodies (and municipal councils etc) function now to the pandemic. There are many access and privacy issues with this. Adjudicator Ian Mackenzie provides a good summary of this in a piece published on Slaw this morning [http://www.slaw.ca/2020/10/…
A friend sent me a link for the trailer of a new David Bowie biographical film titled "Stardust" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U82heDabn5k&feature=youtu.be] , asking where some of the scenes were shot in Hamilton. [Wikipedia article on the film [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardust_(2020_…
In which I discuss my own practices, and why I need to think about unpublishing into the future…
A few months ago, the Canadian documentary After Fact [https://www.afterfact.ca] premiered online. I'm one of four journalists featured in After Fact. The documentary team followed me during three years, 2017 to 2019, ending shortly before I won my journalism fellowship (I think that would've been a fun…
It's odd to think that exactly six months ago I had an email conversation to reschedule cancelled March/April meetings into September. It was a Tuesday, St. Patrick's Day in fact, and I was consumed with responding to the COVID crisis as a UofT Fellow-at-Large. The Provincial State of Emergency…