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An Interesting Follow-up to My Plane Crash Story

If you’re a reader of Edge.ca, you may have seen my weekend story about our plane crash incident at Pearson

This fan at a show in Rio won’t soon forget her onstage moment of fame. (Via Holy Kaw)

It was a late spring afternoon–a Saturday–in Toronto and people had already started making their way to Downsview Park to

The First Avenue Nightclub in Minneapolis–a Prince hangout and made famous in Purple Rain–had an issue last night. Theory of

At some point over the next few days, U2 will appear on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Bono was

Years ago, I went swimming in the surf of a beach called Saline in St. Barts. It’s a broad, sandy

Okay, so that’s not the image of the iconic rock star we’ve become associated to at all. You can thank

Around 3am Sunday morning as the Dropkick Murphys were making their way from San Antonio to an airport in Dallas, something

On the first day of filming of the Greg Allman bio-pic, Midnight Rider, some the crew took a hospital bed

A woman was killed in Georgia during the filming of a movie based on the life of Greg Allman. She

Suicidal Tendencies were playing a normal raucous show in Slouthurn, Switzerland, when a 28 year-old dude decided to go for

Being your Authentic Self – Richard Crouse in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 035 July 2, 2021
You would be given a free pass if you forgot that before the rise of the social media influencer there were already pundits and personalities on TV, radio and print. There’s just been that much exponential change in the media business over the last 15 years. Yet today, those who were formerly the audience are […]
Mark Silver
The Business of Radio – Elliott Hurst in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 034 June 21, 2021
The commercialization of streaming audio is not a new phenomenon. Going back 100 years, it was simply known by another name, broadcasting. With the launch, rise and now transition to digital and apps, the business models of audio-preneurs have generally been the same, mostly because of the challenge of measurement, a problem audio’s cousin television […]
Mark Silver
The Custodian of Toronto Sports – Richard Peddie in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 033 May 27, 2021
Over a 20+ year span, as the Toronto pro sports scene evolved from older venues and stands filled with blue and white (Leafs, Blue Jays, Argonauts) to a more intense red (Raptors, TFC), and grand coliseums that define the city’s skyline, there is one sports executive in particular who ownership looked to. We’re of course […]
Mark Silver