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'Hit Man' still trying to achieve greatness

Producer-composer David Foster, his hair well tousled for a day promoting his autobiography Hitman and career-spanning concert DVD, twice cuts the conversation to ask if I'm a "rocker." "I'm always a little nervous when I'm with someone like you," says ...

From GUY DIXON, Globe and Mail,  1 Dec 2008

Rotating lampshade, whirling mind

In the tiny basement of a small Toronto bookstore, as intense red patterns of op art swirl behind my eyelids, I'm tapping into the beat era and awaiting transcendence. Or a new level of consciousness. Or at least some vague, much-promised hallucination. ...

From GUY DIXON, Globe and Mail,  27 Nov 2008

Cruickshank named publisher of Toronto Star

After little more than a year on the job, John Cruickshank, publisher of CBC News, is leaving the public broadcaster to become publisher of the Toronto Star, it was announced Wednesday. Mr. Cruikshank, age 55, was confirmed by the Torstar board of ...

From MICHAEL POSNER AND GUY DIXON, Globe and Mail,  26 Nov 2008

Doc digs into 'tradition' at Mobile's Mardi Gras

Margaret Brown is surprised by the question: What is her view on Southern attitudes toward the continued racial segregation in Mobile's Mardi Gras celebrations and opulent balls? It shouldn't be surprising. The very fact that she made a documentary, ...

From GUY DIXON, Globe and Mail,  14 Nov 2008

Has shock 'n' roll art met its maker?

Imagine - oh, I don't know - an advertiser putting out an image of the children's TV purple dinosaur Barney slumped against a wall, a massive blood stain dripping down behind him, having shot himself in the head with a rifle and wearing a Nirvana ...

From GUY DIXON, Globe and Mail,  14 Nov 2008

Creating new signs of life

At Queen and Sherbourne streets in Toronto, amid the uneasy mix of skid row strivers and the influx of upwardly mobile professionals, sits the image of a woman in her late 20s, sitting contentedly on the wall of an old, boarded-up tavern. She's a ...

From GUY DIXON, Globe and Mail,  12 Nov 2008

Facing the horror of trying to help

The silent brick church in Kigali triggers a memory, in the still afternoon air, of corpses lying along a wall. In one of the starkest moments in the documentary Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma, James Orbinski, who headed Médecins ...

From GUY DIXON, Globe and Mail,  5 Nov 2008

How eloquence shrank to election buzzwords

In an era of election buzzwords, “mavericks” and Katie Couric interviews, it's strange to remember there was once a time when highly literate speeches were all the rage. Tragically, that was almost four centuries ago. As the bestselling New York writer ...

From GUY DIXON, Globe and Mail,  1 Nov 2008

Tuning in to the underside of rock 'n' roll

Care Failure is a vision of rock 'n' wreckage. The young singer-guitarist-rocker has collapsed in her band's van: Chin protruding, wearing shards of clothing, she fiddles aimlessly with her necklace. Bathed in red light, she looks toward the camera and ...

From GUY DIXON, Globe and Mail,  28 Oct 2008

Queen to attend Canadian memorial

The Queen will attend the unveiling of a temporary, transatlantic, Canadian war memorial titled Vigil 1914-1918 in London next week. The solemn work will not only commemorate the 68,000 Canadian soldiers who died in the First World War by projecting ...

From GUY DIXON, Globe and Mail,  28 Oct 2008

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