That's right - it's back. The St. Catharines Event for New music Entertainment, better known as the S.C.E.N.E. Festival, returns for its 14th annual day of all things music on June 28. When the festival began in 1995, it consisted of 20 artists on three stages.
After attending the S.C.E.N.E. Festival annually since its conception in 1995, Del Asher's guitar player Chris Charkoway couldn't be more enthusiastic about performing this year. "Back in the day, there were a lot less bands, less clubs and it really was just on such a smaller scale.
The Ceremonial Snips started out in 1999 as an opportunity for some high school boys to learn what it was like to play in a band. Who would have guessed that 10 years later, after a few transformations in the line-up, all their hard work would have paid off? In the 10 years following their formation, they have released several albums and played countless shows - which included some Warped Tour dates last summer, as well as an opening slot for NOFX in the fall.
On June 5, 2009, Phil Fontaine said he would not seek a fourth three-year term as National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, a decision that came as a shock to many in Canada. Fontaine had been leader during some of the most monumental moments in recent Aboriginal history, including the historic apology from the federal government for decades of racism and abuse at the hand of government-funded aboriginal residential schools, as well as a visit to Vatican City along with a group of other Aboriginal delegates that met with the Pope, who also expressed feelings of sorrow for the Roman Catholic Church's role in the school systems.
One-hundred million? Well, almost. Nearly 100 million votes were cast for the finale of this season's American Idol. Do you know how many people voted in the 2008 Presidential Election? Approx-imately 122.5 million. I don't know about you, but those numbers seem far too close to one another.
If there is one equation that I have figured out all on my own, it's that summer = drinking beer. On the beach, at the cottage, in the hospital, wherever, a beer is most appropriate to quench that summertime thirst. This article has been one of my favourite due to the in depth research involved in choosing the best beers of the summer.
Film Review Drag Me to Hell When I was a kid, my grandpa had the vastest of movie collections. Almost 1,200 VHS tapes with (usually) three movies per cassette, of every genre of film imaginable. I remember falling in love with horror films. By the time I was 10, I had seen terribly recorded versions of every freakin' Halloween and almost every version of Friday the 13th.
