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Ongoing History Daily: The New York Times reviews The Ramones for the first time

Sometimes it’s rather amusing when mainstream media tries to describe and report on what’s happening in pop culture. Newspapers are

Back on Canadian soil. If you’re planning an international trip, budget for up to $600 per person for COVID testing

This is an interesting and heartbreaking story. The full thing runs about 20 minutes, but the lessons contained therein are

I rolled up the rim to win and all I got was four more weeks of winter. Now all I

The Sunday New York Times featured a cover story in the Arts & Entertainment section on the new Beastie Boys

Lorde was this weekend’s cover story in the New York Times Magazine. She’s just twenty years old and there are

The New York Times Magazine is put to bed a week before it’s delivered with the Sunday paper, so this

Back home after a trip to the Far East. My body is here but my soul is still in transit

The New York State Assembly voted last week to make the use of ticket-buying bots a criminal offense. It’s illegal

This appeared in the New York Times today. Words … I love words and phrases, maybe because I’m a songwriter.

When Phil Collins first started releasing records outside of Genesis 35 years ago, rock fans were pretty cool about it,

The Goldilocks of Canadian Production Companies – Mark Bishop in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 037 November 25, 2021
Our latest guest on The Backstage Project podcast comes to us from the world of Canadian television. TBP was thrilled to have a chance to visit and catch up with marblemedia’s Mark Bishop. Mark is an accomplished entrepreneur, brand-builder and trusted media industry advocate. In 2001 Mark and Co-Founder Matt Hornburg founded marblemedia, one of […]
Andrew Dick
Chasing a Dream – Kevin Porter in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 036 October 11, 2021
Many of us – at one time or another – dream of being professional athletes. Most of us realize in high school that we won’t be making it to the big leagues – unfortunately. The lucky among us flirt with the minor leagues in hopes of that big break. But what happens when that big […]
Andrew Dick
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