October 1962 a big week for pop culture
PAT MURPHY: It was the month Johnny Carson and James Bond made their debut
Tag: Culture
Return iconic Toronto concert hall to its populist roots
MICHAEL TAUBE: Incorporate Hart Massey’s original model for Massey Hall and charge $1 for tickets to the first few concerts
The Toronto Blue Jays truly are Canada’s team
GERRY CHIDIAC: Just like Canada, baseball has a way of bringing diverse groups together (PREMIUM)
Trudeau trampling freedom of expression
FRANCO TERRAZZANO: So culture lobby can rake in more dough
The legend of Davy Crockett
PAT MURPHY: Disney’s 1950s version of the life of King of the Wild Frontier was, well, mostly historically correct (BASIC/PREMIUM content/Not yet a BASIC/PREMIUM member? $19)
Oklahoma’s reality even weirder, more traumatic than Tiger King
DR. RUSSELL COBB: Oklahoma has a long, sordid history of scoundrels who have found its red dirt fertile for all manner of dubious schemes
A place of reconciliation and pride
MIKE ROBINSON: The process can include something as simple as discovering and using the ancient name for where you live (PREMIUM content/Not yet a PREMIUM member? $25)
Calling Elvis: When the King came home from the army
PAT MURPHY: Two years older, Elvis had filled out and the lean and hungry look was gone. And if rock ’n’ roll wasn’t abandoned, the changes were substantial (PREMIUM content/Not yet a PREMIUM member? $25)
Is happiness the point of human life?
DANA WILSON: It was 2,400 years ago that Aristotle identified happiness as the goal all people seek – the end of all “why” questions. But what is it?
Wet’suwet’en protests throw us all into chaos
BRIAN GIESBRECHT: While the project is a win for the province, the country, the environment and B.C.’s First Nations, these hereditary chiefs don’t see it that way (FREE membership content)
Bending pipe to fit the Dene culture
MIKE ROBINSON: Selecting a pipeline route through Aboriginal title lands requires care, consultation and attention to detail
