Reading Time: 5 minutes Sixty years ago, John Lennon’s mother Julia was killed. He never got over the loss and you can find echos of her influence in Liverpool
Tag: Music
Out of the roiling heat of Montreal, into the heart of artistic genius
Reading Time: 4 minutes And a full dose of air-conditioned museum comfort certainly doesn’t hurt the appreciation of Picasso
Movie musical Grease turns 40 this summer
Reading Time: 3 minutes Forty years after its release, the movie poses a conundrum for those disposed to view everything through an ideologically-tinted lens
Music’s power to improve the challenges associated with autism
Reading Time: 4 minutes Music interventions are evidence-based with positive results – so why don’t we use them more often?
The Beatles just might have been right
Reading Time: 3 minutes Love may not be all we need, but it’s a key ingredient to leading a well-lived, meaningful existence
A B.C. coastal community orchestrates a new role in the global economy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Powell River’s PRISMA on the Beach is part of a global movement of summer music festivals in towns that love to organize, fundraise and volunteer for the arts
Patti Smith tracks rock heroes’ slide into ‘careerism’
Reading Time: 4 minutes Too many of today’s music stars have strayed into careerism and away from the revolutionary values that many of them began with
Tragically Hip put their love of Canada ahead of fame
Reading Time: 3 minutes The band’s powerful ties to Canada cost them dearly in the international market
Punks unite to educate on Brexit’s ramifications
Reading Time: 4 minutes It represents a triumph for the angry old white folks they thought they had beaten back in the bad old days
Frank Sinatra at 100
Reading Time: 3 minutes To say that Sinatra liked wine, women and song would be putting far too romantic a spin on it