Ron Petrie, longtime humour columnist and enthusiastic chronicler of life in Saskatchewan, died Sunday of cancer. The Leader-Post’s Will Chabun has a fine obit here, but for a full appreciation for the guy and for the...
Read MoreVillage Voice music editor Maura Johnston (hopefully) puts a cap on a particularly odious run of execrable things written about women in the music press with this handy four-step guide titled “How Not to Write About Female...
Read MoreJohn Cameron is a fellow contributor to prairie dog magazine and the Dog Blog. I’ve never met the guy, but his writing makes him seem like an okay dude. His band, These Estates–whose name strains under too many...
Read MoreElsewhere on the Dog Blog, debate rages as to whether or not it’s fair to poke fun or criticize the hairstyles of public figures, specifically in regard to one hockey-haired hizzoner, the mayor of mullet, Party-in-the-Back...
Read MoreI filed my first record review in months last week. I tackled the new record from Rae Spoon–you can read all about it in this week’s print edition of prairie dog. Spoon, if you don’t know, is a Montreal-based...
Read MoreWhat is this? The year is over already? My latest batch of kids were born just before Thanksgiving, and in some ways, I never mentally made it past that second weekend in October. I haven’t listened to much music since...
Read MoreDon’t get too excited. I’m not back. In fact, I might even be less back than before, depending on who you ask. Sometimes when I wake up in the middle of the night I’m not me. I’m Swedish sleuth Martin...
Read MoreI’m writing this on Thursday night. My wife has been in early or pre-labour for several days. She’s catching some Z’s while my mom and my sister tuck my daughter in to sleep. That’s right, I’m in a...
Read MoreMaurice Sendak, writer and illustrator of beloved children’s books Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen and Chicken Soup with Rice, has a new book out. To promote Bumble-Ardy, the 83-year-old Sendak has been...
Read MoreI think when people say, as I’m about to, that music was better when they were young, what they really mean is that there used to be less music. It would have been October, maybe early November when I first heard it....
Read MoreLook folks, I don’t know how much longer this is going to go on for. When I started this column back in January, I had no idea what the rest of the year had in store for me. Though, I must say, I found out soon enough....
Read MoreI spoke with Lyn Heinemann of Vancouver’s Drawn Ship for the current issue of prairie dog. One thing that wasn’t mentioned in that article was Heinemann’s collection of songs about Louis Riel. “I’m always...
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