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Blog - Quickies | Blogs

What to do this long weekend?

By Craig Takeuchi

Ah, it turned out not to be just a manic Monday but a manic Tuesday, Wednesday, and well, the whole week. We were shortstaffed this week so we were all busy sharing responsibilities and the like.

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Chinaphobia, tainted toys, and Asian suicides: stereotypes or cultural truths?

By Craig Takeuchi

WARNING: This blog entry reveals plot details about the 2007 movie Sunshine.*

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Blog - Music | Blogs

R.I.P. Tony Wilson

By John Lucas

British music-industry legend Tony Wilson died today at 7:00 p.m. Manchester time. As previously reported on this blog, 57-year-old Wilson had been battling cancer with controversial medication, but in the end it was a heart attack that took his life.

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Blog - Music | Blogs

New Order split: the plot thickens

By John Lucas

Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris have declared their intent to continue New Order without Peter Hook's involvement, but it seem's Hooky's having none of that. In a recent post on his MySpace blog, the legendary bassist refutes the idea that the band can carry on without him, and he ends his rant with "See you in court!"

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A wii, little problem with things people are breaking with the Wii

By Craig Takeuchi

Last Friday, there was a huge lineup building up outside Future Shop before it opened. Turns out it was for a new shipment of those new oh-so-coveted Wiis.

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Blog - Music | Blogs

Portishead returns

By John Lucas

The seemingly reclusive Portishead will perform its first proper live set in nearly 10 years this December.

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Blogs | Geek of the Week

Brass Goggles

By Dave Watson

Most people have heard of cyberpunk, that rapidly-becoming-real species of science fiction that involves plugging directly into cyberspace. Less well known is an entertaining subgenre called steampunk, generally set sometime in an imaginary 19th century in which steam technology and mechanical computers have reached the kind of potential imagined by Jules Verne and H.G. Wells.

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Blog - Music | Blogs | Music

Mew ripped off

By John Lucas

Perusing Mew's MySpace blog today, I came across this line from the band's singer, Jonas Bjerre: "Thank you for all your messages and emails regarding the Norwegian tv ad featuring a rip-off of Comforting Sounds. It is being addressed."

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GS Blog gets Brewed by Beyond Robson's Sean Orr

By Craig Takeuchi

Here at the GS Views Blog, we aspire to greatness (or at the very least, some 2-for-1 coupons). Yet nothing could prepare us for the honour of being blog-stalked by Sean Orr in not one but two editions of Beyond Robson's Morning Brew by their groovy little feller Sean Orr. Yay!

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The Battle for Helm's Deep - in candy

By John Burns

I'm slow on the uptake here - this is from earlier this month - but if you haven't seen the Battle for Helm's Deep made out of candy yet, you really should.

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God really is in the details

By John Burns

If you like your world religions neat and tidy - and have 2500 bucks to spend on your eternal soul - you might want to pick up the Juxtaposed: Religion bookshelf.

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Blog - Music | Blogs | Music

We're back!

By John Lucas

The Georgia Straight music blog has returned. We have plenty to catch up on (and I have to figure out how to use this new system), but I'll start by posting an oldie by one of my favourite bands.

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Joining the Web, version 2.0

By John Burns

To reach out to the wandering blog tribes - our people! - we hereby join Technorati Profile. No doubt much tagging, blogging, Googling, and other -ging will ensue..

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Welcome to the Views Blog

By John Burns

The Georgia Straight adopts some Robot Wisdom today with two new blogs. Sure, sure, you're up to your i-balls with blogs.

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